Grape vines and dancing warriors decorate a 6th-century CE tunic from Egypt, with two figures drinking from wine glasses hidden on the shoulder, a jovial detail you’d only see up close. Its Dionysian ...

“Interaction with the supernatural infused nearly every aspect of everyday life” during Late Antiquity, argues religious studies scholar Satlow (How the Bible Became Holy) in this somewhat stuffy ...

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