He is one of carnival's most prolific float builders, creating the rides of some major parades like Orpheus, Endymion and Bacchus.

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The notion that Bacchus' favorite libation could do us so much good would have given strokes to Carry Nation and other militant prohibition-ists from America's past.

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Longing for death on the island of Naxos, she is redeemed by the love of the god Bacchus, who can also seem like the messenger of death.

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It was washed down with a bottle of Chaple Down Bacchus white wine from Kent, England (yes, England), for the novelty value that also unwittingly kept our meal's food miles down.

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Christianity was not yet the religion of Rome, and many people were reluctant to be wooed away from the old gods, such as Jupiter, and his jolly companions Venus and Bacchus.

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One captivating cameo created in the U.S. around 1890 shows the face of a follower of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and intoxication, surrounded by a rich harvest depicted with pearls and green leaves.

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Instead, check into the creaky old Palmyra Hotel where luminaries including Jean Cocteau and General de Gaulle once slept, and explore the spectacular ruins of ancient Heliopolis - the "Sun City" - whose Temples of Bacchus and Jupiter hold their own among the Mediterranean's finest.

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