These texts supply a standard story of Dionysus’ birth: Like many of Zeus’s children, Dionysus was not the son of Zeus’s wife and queen, Hera, but the product of an extramarital affair.

A woman at the center of the frieze "is about to be initiated into the mysteries of Dionysus, the god who dies and is reborn and who promises the same destiny to his followers," it said. These ...

Who is Dionysus, reputed inspiration of ceremony feast scene? But the opening ceremony’s artistic director, Thomas Jolly, has insisted that the scene is not a reference at all to the Last Supper.