Under the Spell of the Dionysian: Some Meta-tragic Aspects of the Xenos Attributes in Euripides’ Bacchae

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Walter F. Otto’s Dionysos (1933) 4
6. Dionysos in the Mycenaean World 23
7. The Term βάκχος and Dionysos Βάκχιος 38
8. Apollo and Dionysos: Intersections 58
9. ‘Rien pour Dionysos?’ Le dithyrambe comme forme poétique entre Apollon et Dionysos 82
10. Redefining Dionysos in Athens from the Written Sources: The Lenaia, Iacchos and Attic Women 100
11. Gender Differentiation and Role Models in the Worship of Dionysos: The Thracian and Thessalian Pattern 120
12. Dionysos versus Orpheus? 144
13. Maenadic Ecstasy in Greece: Fact or Fiction? 159
14. Maenadic Ecstasy in Rome: Fact or Fiction? 185
15. Dioniso e i cani di Atteone in Eumelo di Corinto (Una nuova ipotesi su P. Oxy. xxx 2509 e Apollod. 3.4.4) 200
16. Dionysos in the Homeric Hymns: the Olympian Portrait of the God 235
17. Herodotus’ Egyptian Dionysos. A Comparative Perspective 250
18. Dushara and Allāt alias Dionysos and Aphrodite in Herodotus 3.8 261
19. The Sophoclean Dionysos 272
20. Under the Spell of the Dionysian: Some Meta-tragic Aspects of the Xenos Attributes in Euripides’ Bacchae 301
21. The Image of Dionysos in Euripides’ Bacchae: The God and his Epiphanies 329
22. The Names of Dionysos in Euripides’ Bacchae and the Rhetorical Language of Teiresias 349
23. Dionysos in Old Comedy. Staging of Experiments on Myth and Cult 366
24. Dionysian Enthusiasm in Plato 386
25. Les ‘Dionysoi’ de Patras Le mythe et le culte de Dionysos dans la Periégèse de Pausanias 401
26. Dionysos in Egypt? Epaphian Dionysos in the Orphic Hymns 415
27. Dioniso tra polinomia ed enoteismo: il caso degli Inni Orfici 433
28. Dionysos and Dionysism in the Third Book of Maccabees 452
29. Parallels between Dionysos and Christ in Late Antiquity: Miraculous Healings in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca 464
30. The Gifts of Dionysos 488
31. The Symposiast Dionysos: A God like Ourselves 504
32. Bacchus and Felines in Roman Iconography: Issues of Gender and Species 526
33. An Augustan Trend towards Dionysos: Around the ‘Auditorium of Maecenas’ 541
34. Dionysos: One or Many? 554
35. Contributors 583
36. Analytic Index 586
37. Index Fontium 614
38. Plates. Part 1 i
39. Plates. Part 2 xxi