Redefining Dionysos / edited by Alberto Bernabé [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernabé Pajares, Alberto.

Series:

MythosEikonPoiesis ; Bd. 5.

Mythoseikonpoiesis ; Band 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dionysus (Greek deity).

Dionysus.

Dionysus--(Greek deity).

Gods, Greek.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (700 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book contributes to the understanding of Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, dancing, theatre and ecstasy, by putting together 30 studies of classical scholars. They combine the analysis of specific instances of particular dimensions of the god in cult, myth, literature and iconography, with general visions of Dionysos in antiquity and modern times. Only from the combination of different perspectives can we grasp the complex personality of Dionysos, and the forms of his presence in different cults, literary genres, and artistic forms, from Mycenaean times to late antiquity. The ways in which Dionysos was experienced may vary in each author, each cult, and each genre in which this god is involved. Therefore, instead of offering a new all-encompassing theory that would immediately become partial, the book narrows the focus on specific aspects of the god. Redefinition does not mean finding (again) the essence of the god, but obtaining a more nuanced knowledge of the ways he was experienced and conceived in antiquity.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

Walter F. Otto’s Dionysos (1933)

Dionysos in the Mycenaean World

The Term βάκχος and Dionysos Βάκχιος

Apollo and Dionysos: Intersections

‘Rien pour Dionysos?’ Le dithyrambe comme forme poétique entre Apollon et Dionysos

Redefining Dionysos in Athens from the Written Sources: The Lenaia, Iacchos and Attic Women

Gender Differentiation and Role Models in the Worship of Dionysos: The Thracian and Thessalian Pattern

Dionysos versus Orpheus?

Maenadic Ecstasy in Greece: Fact or Fiction?

Maenadic Ecstasy in Rome: Fact or Fiction?

Dioniso e i cani di Atteone in Eumelo di Corinto (Una nuova ipotesi su P. Oxy. xxx 2509 e Apollod. 3.4.4)

Dionysos in the Homeric Hymns: the Olympian Portrait of the God

Herodotus’ Egyptian Dionysos. A Comparative Perspective

Dushara and Allāt alias Dionysos and Aphrodite in Herodotus 3.8

The Sophoclean Dionysos

Under the Spell of the Dionysian: Some Meta-tragic Aspects of the Xenos Attributes in Euripides’ Bacchae

The Image of Dionysos in Euripides’ Bacchae: The God and his Epiphanies

The Names of Dionysos in Euripides’ Bacchae and the Rhetorical Language of Teiresias

Dionysos in Old Comedy. Staging of Experiments on Myth and Cult

Dionysian Enthusiasm in Plato

Les ‘Dionysoi’ de Patras Le mythe et le culte de Dionysos dans la Periégèse de Pausanias

Dionysos in Egypt? Epaphian Dionysos in the Orphic Hymns

Dioniso tra polinomia ed enoteismo: il caso degli Inni Orfici

Dionysos and Dionysism in the Third Book of Maccabees

Parallels between Dionysos and Christ in Late Antiquity: Miraculous Healings in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca

The Gifts of Dionysos

The Symposiast Dionysos: A God like Ourselves

Bacchus and Felines in Roman Iconography: Issues of Gender and Species

An Augustan Trend towards Dionysos: Around the ‘Auditorium of Maecenas’

Dionysos: One or Many?

Contributors

Analytic Index

Index Fontium

Plates. Part 1

Plates. Part 2

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783110301328

3110301326

9783110301335

3110301334

OCLC:

858761801