Uncovered in what was once a spacious banqueting hall that opened onto a garden, the frieze dates back to the 1st century BC, ...

the ancient Greek god of wine, against walls and columns painted in Pompeiian red. All the figures in the frieze are shown on pedestals, and a second row of images above the human figures shows ...

the goddess of love and marriage, the woman who looks at herself in the mirror and ‘dolls herself up.’” The room has been named the House of Thiasus, a reference to the Greek word for the ...