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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Introduction
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Walter F. Otto’s Dionysos (1933)
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Jan N. Bremmer

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Dionysos in the Mycenaean World
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Alberto Bernabé

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The Term βάκχος and Dionysos Βάκχιος
38
Marco Antonio Santamaría

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Apollo and Dionysos: Intersections
58
Emilio Suárez de la Torre

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‘Rien pour Dionysos?’ Le dithyrambe comme forme poétique entre Apollon et Dionysos
82
Claude Calame

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Redefining Dionysos in Athens from the Written Sources: The Lenaia, Iacchos and Attic Women
100
Miriam Valdés Guía

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Gender Differentiation and Role Models in the Worship of Dionysos: The Thracian and Thessalian Pattern
120
Christopher A. Faraone

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Dionysos versus Orpheus?
144
Marisa Tortorelli Ghidini

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Maenadic Ecstasy in Greece: Fact or Fiction?
159
Silvia Porres Caballero

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Maenadic Ecstasy in Rome: Fact or Fiction?
185
Zoa Alonso Fernández

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Dioniso e i cani di Atteone in Eumelo di Corinto (Una nuova ipotesi su P. Oxy. xxx 2509 e Apollod. 3.4.4)
200
Andrea Debiasi

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Dionysos in the Homeric Hymns: the Olympian Portrait of the God
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Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui

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Herodotus’ Egyptian Dionysos. A Comparative Perspective
250
Raquel Martín Hernández

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Dushara and Allāt alias Dionysos and Aphrodite in Herodotus 3.8
261
Paola Corrente

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The Sophoclean Dionysos
272
Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

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Under the Spell of the Dionysian: Some Meta-tragic Aspects of the Xenos Attributes in Euripides’ Bacchae
301
Nina Schwartz

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The Image of Dionysos in Euripides’ Bacchae: The God and his Epiphanies
329
Sara Macías Otero

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The Names of Dionysos in Euripides’ Bacchae and the Rhetorical Language of Teiresias
349
M. Carmen Encinas Reguero

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Dionysos in Old Comedy. Staging of Experiments on Myth and Cult
366
Anton Bierl

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Dionysian Enthusiasm in Plato
386
Francesc Casadesús Bordoy

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Les ‘Dionysoi’ de Patras Le mythe et le culte de Dionysos dans la Periégèse de Pausanias
401
Kerasia A. Stratiki

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Dionysos in Egypt? Epaphian Dionysos in the Orphic Hymns
415
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Dioniso tra polinomia ed enoteismo: il caso degli Inni Orfici
433
Giulia Sfameni Gasparro

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Dionysos and Dionysism in the Third Book of Maccabees
452
Mercedes López Salvá

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Parallels between Dionysos and Christ in Late Antiquity: Miraculous Healings in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca
464
David Hernández de la Fuente

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The Gifts of Dionysos
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Paloma Cabrera

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The Symposiast Dionysos: A God like Ourselves
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Fátima Díez-Platas

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Bacchus and Felines in Roman Iconography: Issues of Gender and Species
526
Patricia Meilán Jácome

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An Augustan Trend towards Dionysos: Around the ‘Auditorium of Maecenas’
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Stéphanie Wyler

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Dionysos: One or Many?
554
Albert Henrichs

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Contributors
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Analytic Index
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Index Fontium
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Plates. Part 1
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Plates. Part 2
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Bacchic rituals; Dionysos; Greek gods; Greek literature; Greek religion

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Redefining Dionysos

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Supplementary Materials

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

Walter F. Otto’s Dionysos (1933)

Dionysos in the Mycenaean World

The Term βάκχος and Dionysos Βάκχιος

Apollo and Dionysos: Intersections

‘Rien pour Dionysos?’ Le dithyrambe comme forme poétique entre Apollon et Dionysos

Redefining Dionysos in Athens from the Written Sources: The Lenaia, Iacchos and Attic Women

Gender Differentiation and Role Models in the Worship of Dionysos: The Thracian and Thessalian Pattern

Dionysos versus Orpheus?

Maenadic Ecstasy in Greece: Fact or Fiction?

Maenadic Ecstasy in Rome: Fact or Fiction?

Dioniso e i cani di Atteone in Eumelo di Corinto (Una nuova ipotesi su P. Oxy. xxx 2509 e Apollod. 3.4.4)

Dionysos in the Homeric Hymns: the Olympian Portrait of the God

Herodotus’ Egyptian Dionysos. A Comparative Perspective

Dushara and Allāt alias Dionysos and Aphrodite in Herodotus 3.8

The Sophoclean Dionysos

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

The Image of Dionysos in Euripides’ Bacchae: The God and his Epiphanies

The Names of Dionysos in Euripides’ Bacchae and the Rhetorical Language of Teiresias

Dionysos in Old Comedy. Staging of Experiments on Myth and Cult

Dionysian Enthusiasm in Plato

Les ‘Dionysoi’ de Patras Le mythe et le culte de Dionysos dans la Periégèse de Pausanias

Dionysos in Egypt? Epaphian Dionysos in the Orphic Hymns

Dioniso tra polinomia ed enoteismo: il caso degli Inni Orfici

Dionysos and Dionysism in the Third Book of Maccabees

Parallels between Dionysos and Christ in Late Antiquity: Miraculous Healings in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca

The Gifts of Dionysos

The Symposiast Dionysos: A God like Ourselves

Bacchus and Felines in Roman Iconography: Issues of Gender and Species

An Augustan Trend towards Dionysos: Around the ‘Auditorium of Maecenas’

Dionysos: One or Many?

Contributors

Analytic Index

Index Fontium

Plates. Part 1

Plates. Part 2

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