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Dionysus and politics : constructing authority in the Graeco-Roman world / edited by Filip Doroszewski and Dariusz Karłowicz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge monographs in classical studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dionysus (Greek deity).
- Dionysus.
- Religion and politics--Greece--History--To 1500.
- Religion and politics.
- Religion and politics--Rome--History.
- Political science--Greece--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Political science--Rome--Philosophy.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.
- Greece.
- Politics and government.
- Rome--Politics and government--30 B.C.-476 A.D.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 215 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Filip Doroszewski is Assistant Professor at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland. His recent publications includea co-edited volume Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III (2021) and a monograph Orgies of Words. Mystery Terminology in the Paraphrase of St. John's Gospel by Nonnus of Panopolis (forthcoming). Dariusz Karłowicz is a Polish philosopher and a lecturer at Warsaw University, Poland. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the philosophical magazine 'Political Theology'. His books in English include The Archparadox of Death: Martyrdom as a Philosophical Category (2016) and Socrates and Other Saints (2017).
- Contents:
- Dionysos, the polis and power / Cornelia Isler-Kerényi
- The politics of Euripides' Bacchae and the preconception of irresolveable contradiction / Richard Seaford
- On the necessity of Dionysus : the return of Hephaestus as a tale of the god that alone can solve unresolvable conflicts and restore an inconsistent whole / Dariusz Karłowicz
- Alexander and Dionysus / Richard Stoneman
- Dionysos against Rome? : the Bacchanalian affair : a matter of power(s) / Jean-Marie Pailler
- Augustus and the Neoi Dionysoi / Fiachra Mac Góráin
- The state as crater : Dionysus and politics in Plutarch's lives of Crassus, Antony and Caesar / Filip Doroszewski
- Dionysus and legitimisation of imperial authority by myth in First and Second Century Rome : Caligula, Domitian and Hadrian / Sławomir Poloczek
- The role of Bacchus/Liber Pater in the Severan religious policy : the Numismatic and epigraphic evidence / Małgorzata Krawczyk
- The rule of Dionysus in the light of the Orphic theogony (Hieroi Logoi in 24 Rhapsodies) / Marek Job
- Dionysus in the mirror of late antiquity : religion, philosophy and politics / David Hernández de la Fuente.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 20, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Dionysus and politics
- ISBN:
- 9781003050995
- 1003050999
- 9781000392418
- 1000392414
- 9781000392425
- 1000392422
- Publisher Number:
- 40030669294
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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