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A Different God?

Dionysos and Ancient Polytheism
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Published/Copyright: 2012
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Within modern frameworks of knowledge and representation, Dionysos often appears to be atypical for ancient culture, an exception within the context of ancient polytheism, or even an instance of a difference that anticipates modernism. How can recent research contribute to a more precise understanding of the diverse transformations of the ancient god, from Greek antiquity to the Roman Empire? In this volume, which is the result of an international conference held in March 2009 at the Pergamon Museum Berlin, scholars from all branches of classical studies, including history of scholarship, consider this question. Consequently, this leads to a new look on vase paintings, sanctuaries, rituals and religious-political institutions like theatre, and includes new readings of the texts of ancient poets, historians and philosophers, as well as of papyri and inscriptions. It is the diversity of sources or methods and the challenge of former views that is the strength of this volume, providing a comprehensive, innovative and richly faceted account of the “different” god in an unprecedented way.

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Renate Schlesier, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

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    Renate Schlesier
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  • Newborn Dionysos as Model
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    Infant Gods and Heroes in Late Antiquity: Dionysos’ First Bath

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    Glen W. Bowersock
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  • Differences and Common Features
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    Dionysos – ,different‘ im Wandel der Zeiten. Eine Skizze

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    Walter Burkert
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    Heis Dionysos! – One Dionysos? A Polytheistic Perspective

    23
    Henk S. Versnel
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    Sacrificing to Dionysos: Regular and Particular Rituals

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    Stella Georgoudi
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    Cults of Dionysos: Economic Aspects

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    Marietta Horster
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    ,Fremde Nähe‘. Zur mythologischen Differenz des Dionysos

    85
    Susanne Gödde
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    Göttliche Präsenz als Differenz: Dionysos als epiphanischer Gott

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    Albert Henrichs
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  • Dionysiac Realms in Perspective
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    Dionysos, the Banquet and Gender

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    Pauline Schmitt Pantel
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    Eros Reigns Supreme: Dionysos’ Wedding on a New Krater by the Dinos Painter

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    Victoria Sabetai
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    Dionysos, the Wine and Ikarios: Hospitality and Danger

    161
    Philippe Borgeaud
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    Der bakchische Gott

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    Renate Schlesier
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  • Specific Media of Transmission
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    Dionysos in the Mirror of Philosophy: Heraclitus, Plato, and Plotinus

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    Christian Wildberg
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    Visual Differences: Dionysos in Ancient Art

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    Susanne Moraw
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    Dionysos and the Blessed on Apulian Red-Figured Vases

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    Thomas H. Carpenter
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    Epigraphica Dionysiaca

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    Dionysos in and out of the Papyri

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    Dirk Obbink
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  • Theatre and the Polis of Athens
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    Athenian Identity, Dionysiac Festivals and the Theatre

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    Natale Spineto
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    Dionysos auf der Bühne. Gattungsspezifische Aspekte des Theatergottes in Tragödie, Satyrspiel und Komödie

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    Anton Bierl
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    Dionysos’ Many Names in Aristophanes’ Frogs

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    Plädoyer für Pentheus oder: Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Religion für die griechische Polis

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    Hans-Joachim Gehrke
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  • Hellenistic and Roman Paradigms
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    Inszenierungen von Göttlichkeit. Die politische Rolle von Dionysos/Bacchus in der römischen Literatur

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    Ein dekorativer Gott? Bilder für Dionysos zwischen griechischer Votivpraxis und römischem Decorum

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    Alexander Heinemann
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    Integrierte Andersartigkeit: Die Rolle der dionysischen Vereine

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    Anne-Françoise Jaccottet
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    Dionysos in Pergamon. Ein polytheistisches Phänomen

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    ,Das hat nichts mit Osiris zu tun‘. Zur Verweigerung des Dionysos/Osiris-Synkretismus bei Pausanias

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    Christa Frateantonio
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  • Modern Reflections
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    Dionysos in Nineteenth-Century Scholarship

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    Michael Konaris
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    Der ,wiedergeborene‘ Gott. Dionysos im modernen Griechenland

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    Oliver Leege
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    Dionysos – eine Chiffre der ästhetischen Moderne

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    Roberto Sanchiño Martínez
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    Re-Reading Dionysos in the Theater

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    Froma I. Zeitlin
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  • Appendix
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    Contributors

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    General Abbreviations

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    Bibliographical Abbreviations

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    Bibliography

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  • Indices
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    I. Names

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    II. Ancient Evidence

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    III. Terms

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    Sources of Illustrations

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    Plates. I – XV

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    Plates. XVI – XXX

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    Plates. XXXI – XLV

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    Plates. XLVI – LXVIII

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eBook published on:
December 23, 2011
eBook ISBN:
9783110222357
Hardcover published on:
December 19, 2011
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9783110222340
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Front matter:
14
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667
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Num. figs. 68 coloured plates
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110222357
eBook ISBN: 9783110222357
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110222340
Keywords for this book
Dionysos; Polytheism; Antiquity; Religion
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Academics, Institutes, Libraries
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