A Different God?: Dionysos and Ancient Polytheism

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A Different God?

Dionysos and Ancient Polytheism

Edited by: Renate Schlesier

Language: English

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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
Preface Renate Schlesier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	ix
Newborn Dionysos as Model
Infant Gods and Heroes in Late Antiquity: Dionysos’ First Bath Glen W. Bowersock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
Differences and Common Features
Dionysos – ,different‘ im Wandel der Zeiten. Eine Skizze Walter Burkert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
Heis Dionysos! – One Dionysos? A Polytheistic Perspective Henk S. Versnel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
Sacrificing to Dionysos: Regular and Particular Rituals Stella Georgoudi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
Cults of Dionysos: Economic Aspects Marietta Horster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
,Fremde Nähe‘. Zur mythologischen Differenz des Dionysos Susanne Gödde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
Göttliche Präsenz als Differenz: Dionysos als epiphanischer Gott Albert Henrichs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Dionysiac Realms in Perspective
Dionysos, the Banquet and Gender Pauline Schmitt Pantel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
Eros Reigns Supreme: Dionysos’ Wedding on a New Krater by the Dinos Painter Victoria Sabetai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
Dionysos, the Wine and Ikarios: Hospitality and Danger Philippe Borgeaud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
Der bakchische Gott Renate Schlesier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
Specific Media of Transmission
Dionysos in the Mirror of Philosophy: Heraclitus, Plato, and Plotinus Christian Wildberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
Visual Differences: Dionysos in Ancient Art Susanne Moraw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
Dionysos and the Blessed on Apulian Red-Figured Vases Thomas H. Carpenter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
Epigraphica Dionysiaca Susan Guettel Cole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
Dionysos in and out of the Papyri Dirk Obbink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
Theatre and the Polis of Athens
Athenian Identity, Dionysiac Festivals and the Theatre Natale Spineto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	299
Dionysos auf der Bühne. Gattungsspezifische Aspekte des Theatergottes in Tragödie, Satyrspiel und Komödie Anton Bierl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	315
Dionysos’ Many Names in Aristophanes’ Frogs Andrew L. Ford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
Plädoyer für Pentheus oder: Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Religion für die griechische Polis Hans-Joachim Gehrke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
Hellenistic and Roman Paradigms
Inszenierungen von Göttlichkeit. Die politische Rolle von Dionysos/Bacchus in der römischen Literatur Therese Fuhrer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	373
Ein dekorativer Gott? Bilder für Dionysos zwischen griechischer Votivpraxis und römischem Decorum Alexander Heinemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
Integrierte Andersartigkeit: Die Rolle der dionysischen Vereine Anne-Françoise Jaccottet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	413
Dionysos in Pergamon. Ein polytheistisches Phänomen Cornelia Isler-Kerényi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	433
,Das hat nichts mit Osiris zu tun‘. Zur Verweigerung des Dionysos/Osiris-Synkretismus bei Pausanias Christa Frateantonio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447
Modern Reflections
Dionysos in Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Michael Konaris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	467
Der ,wiedergeborene‘ Gott. Dionysos im modernen Griechenland Oliver Leege Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	479
Dionysos – eine Chiffre der ästhetischen Moderne Roberto Sanchiño Martínez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	513
Re-Reading Dionysos in the Theater Froma I. Zeitlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	535
Appendix
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	555
General Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	556
Bibliographical Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	557
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	559
Indices
I. Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	625
II. Ancient Evidence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	643
III. Terms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	661
Sources of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	665
Plates. I – XV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	669
Plates. XVI – XXX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	684
Plates. XXXI – XLV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	699
Plates. XLVI – LXVIII Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	714

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

December 23, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9783110222357

Hardcover published on:

December 19, 2011

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110222340

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

14

Main content:

667

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Num. figs. 68 coloured plates

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110222357

eBook ISBN: 9783110222357

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110222340

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Dionysos; Polytheism; Antiquity; Religion

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