Hurricane Diane,” at Hartford Stage through June 29, rocks you like something less substantial than a hurricane, but Madeleine George’s modern mythic comedy is a wild ride nonetheless, a sharply ...

This sarcophagus offers an unusual perspective of the idea of death—not as an end, but as the beginning of a new path.” ...

Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a Roman-era sarcophagus that depicts Dionysus beating Hercules in a drinking contest.

In a discovery hailed as the “first of its kind,” archaeologists in Israel have found a Roman marble sarcophagus which ...

Archaeologists believe that a wealthy family that enjoyed a rousing lifestyle commissioned the piece to reflect their ...

The sarcophagus was discovered outside the known walls of Caesarea, indicating that the ancient city was far more extensive ...

A marble coffin with vivid carvings of a fabled face-off between Heracles and Dionysus discovered in Caesarea is the sole ...

An ancient Roman sarcophagus found in Israel, featuring the Greek god Dionysus and Hercules, looks like a scene straight out ...

“This is the very first time [we’ve found] the Dionysus and Hercules wine competition scene on a burial coffin in our region,” says Nohar Shahar, an archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities ...

There is probably no contemporary playwright who writes better theatrical farces than Ken Ludwig. What better way to close ...

Newly-uncovered 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus bears mythological scene of Dionysus and Heracles in a drinking contest.