Redefining Dionysos

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Redefining Dionysos

Edited by: Alberto Bernabé , Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui , Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal and Raquel Martín Hernández

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2013

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Volume 5 | MythosEikonPoiesis

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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.

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Alberto Bernabé, Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal and Raquel Martín Hernández, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Walter F. Otto’s Dionysos (1933) Jan N. Bremmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	4
Dionysos in the Mycenaean World Alberto Bernabé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
The Term βάκχος and Dionysos Βάκχιος Marco Antonio Santamaría Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	38
Apollo and Dionysos: Intersections Emilio Suárez de la Torre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	58
‘Rien pour Dionysos?’ Le dithyrambe comme forme poétique entre Apollon et Dionysos Claude Calame Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	82
Redefining Dionysos in Athens from the Written Sources: The Lenaia, Iacchos and Attic Women Miriam Valdés Guía Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	100
Gender Differentiation and Role Models in the Worship of Dionysos: The Thracian and Thessalian Pattern Christopher A. Faraone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	120
Dionysos versus Orpheus? Marisa Tortorelli Ghidini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	144
Maenadic Ecstasy in Greece: Fact or Fiction? Silvia Porres Caballero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
Maenadic Ecstasy in Rome: Fact or Fiction? Zoa Alonso Fernández Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
Dioniso e i cani di Atteone in Eumelo di Corinto (Una nuova ipotesi su P. Oxy. xxx 2509 e Apollod. 3.4.4) Andrea Debiasi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	200
Dionysos in the Homeric Hymns: the Olympian Portrait of the God Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Herodotus’ Egyptian Dionysos. A Comparative Perspective Raquel Martín Hernández Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	250
Dushara and Allāt alias Dionysos and Aphrodite in Herodotus 3.8 Paola Corrente Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
The Sophoclean Dionysos Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	272
Under the Spell of the Dionysian: Some Meta-tragic Aspects of the Xenos Attributes in Euripides’ Bacchae Nina Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
The Image of Dionysos in Euripides’ Bacchae: The God and his Epiphanies Sara Macías Otero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
The Names of Dionysos in Euripides’ Bacchae and the Rhetorical Language of Teiresias M. Carmen Encinas Reguero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
Dionysos in Old Comedy. Staging of Experiments on Myth and Cult Anton Bierl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	366
Dionysian Enthusiasm in Plato Francesc Casadesús Bordoy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	386
Les ‘Dionysoi’ de Patras Le mythe et le culte de Dionysos dans la Periégèse de Pausanias Kerasia A. Stratiki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	401
Dionysos in Egypt? Epaphian Dionysos in the Orphic Hymns Radcliffe G. Edmonds III Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	415
Dioniso tra polinomia ed enoteismo: il caso degli Inni Orfici Giulia Sfameni Gasparro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	433
Dionysos and Dionysism in the Third Book of Maccabees Mercedes López Salvá Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	452
Parallels between Dionysos and Christ in Late Antiquity: Miraculous Healings in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca David Hernández de la Fuente Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	464
The Gifts of Dionysos Paloma Cabrera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	488
The Symposiast Dionysos: A God like Ourselves Fátima Díez-Platas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	504
Bacchus and Felines in Roman Iconography: Issues of Gender and Species Patricia Meilán Jácome Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	526
An Augustan Trend towards Dionysos: Around the ‘Auditorium of Maecenas’ Stéphanie Wyler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	541
Dionysos: One or Many? Albert Henrichs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	554
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	583
Analytic Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	586
Index Fontium Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	614
Plates. Part 1 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	i
Plates. Part 2 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	xxi

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eBook published on:

June 26, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9783110301328

Hardcover published on:

June 18, 2013

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110300918

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Front matter:

9

Main content:

649

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37 S. Tafelteil zuzügl./pp. additional plates

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110301328

eBook ISBN: 9783110301328

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110300918

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Bacchic rituals; Dionysos; Greek gods; Greek literature; Greek religion

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