5 The Vertical Axis: Earth, Air, Water, Fire

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the Expanded Edition ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 The Elusive God 7
8. 2 Forms of Dionysus: Doubling, Hunting, Rituals 27
9. 3 Dionysus and Civilization: Tools, Agriculture, Music 55
10. 4 The Horizontal Axis: House, City, Mountain 78
11. 5 The Vertical Axis: Earth, Air, Water, Fire 125
12. 6 Arms and the Man: Sex Roles and Rites of Passage 158
13. 7 Metatragedy: Art, Illusion, Imitation 215
14. 8 The Crisis of Symbols: Language, Myth, Tragedy 272
15. 9 Dionysiac Poetics and Euripidean Tragedy 339
16. Afterword. Dionysus and the Bacchae in the Light of Recent Scholarship 349
17. Selected Bibliography 395
18. Bibliographical Addenda (1997) 405
19. Index 413