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Dionysos : Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life (Archetypal Images in Greek Religion, Volume 2).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kerényi, Carl.
- Series:
- Bollingen Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archetype (Psychology) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (609 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible life No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and ritual practices of antiquity as Dionysos.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: The Cretan Prelude
- I. Minoan Visions
- The Spirit of Minoan Art
- The Minoan Gesture
- Visionary Crete
- Transcendence in Nature
- Artificially Induced Transcendence
- II. Light and Honey
- Flaming New Year
- The Preparation of Mead
- The Awakening of the Bees
- The Birth of Orion
- Mythology of the Leather Sack
- III. The Cretan Core of the Dionysos Myth
- Bull, Snake, Ivy, and Wine
- Dionysian Names
- Iakar and Iakchos
- Zagreus
- Ariadne
- Part Two: The Greek Cult and Myth
- IV. The Myths of Arrival
- From the History of Science
- The Forms of Arrival
- Arrivals in Attica
- The Arrival in Athens
- Myth of Arrival and Ancient Rite outside of Attica: Thebes and Delphi
- V. Dionysos Trieterikos, God of the Two-Year Period
- Age and Continuity of the Trieteric Cult
- The Dialectic of the Two-Year Period
- Dionysos in Delphi
- The Mystical Sacrificial Rite
- The Enthronement
- VI. The Dionysos of the Athenians and of His Worshipers in the Greek Mysteries
- The Thigh Birth and the Idol with the Mask
- The Dionysian Festivals of the Athenians
- The Beginnings of Tragedy in Attica
- The Birth and Transformation of Comedy in Athens
- The Greek Dionysian Religion of Late Antiquity
- Illustrations
- List of Works Cited
- Abbreviations
- Index
- A Note on C. Kerényi
- A Bibliography of C. Kerényi.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-29069-5
- 0-691-28180-7
- OCLC:
- 1581933763
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