Dionysos Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life / Carl Kerenyi ; translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerényi, Karl, 1897-1973.

Contributor:

Manheim, Ralph

Bollingen Foundation Collection (Library of Congress)

Series:

Bollingen series ; LXV, 2.

Archetypal images in Greek religion ; v. 2

Mythos

Bollingen series ; 65-2

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Dionysus (Greek deity).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvii, 474 pages) : illustrations.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996, 1976.

Language Note:

In English, translated from the German.

Summary:

"No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and ritual representation, the Greeks possessed a complete expression of indestructible life, the essence of Dionysos. In this work the noted mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerenyi presents an historical account of the religion of Dionysos from its beginnings in the Minoan culture down to its transition to a cosmic and cosmopolitan religion of late antiquity under the Roman Empire." "From the wealth of Greek literary, epigraphic, and monumental traditions, Kerenyi constructs a picture of Dionysian worship, always underlining the constitutive element of myth. Included in this study are the secret cult scenes of the women's mysteries both within and beyond Attica, the mystic sacrificial rite at Delphi, and the great public Dionysian festivals at Athens. The way in which the Athenian people received and assimilated tragedy in its immanent connection with Dionysos is seen as the greatest miracle in all cultural history. Tragedy and New Comedy are seen as high spiritual forms of the Dionysian religion, and the Dionysian element itself is seen as a chapter in the religious history of Europe."--Jacket.

Contents:

I. Minoan Visions

II. Light and Honey

III. The Cretan Core of the Dionysos Myth

IV. The Myths of Arrival

V. Dionysos Trieterikos, God of the Two-Year Period

VI. The Dionysos of the Athenians and of His Worshipers in the Greek Mysteries

A Note on C. Kerenyi

A Bibliography of C. Kerenyi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-474).

Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1976.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691098630

0691098638

9780691214108

0691214107

OCLC:

1033643492