Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of illustrations IX
5. List of Contributors XI
6. Introduction. Dionysus in Rome: accommodation and resistance 1
7. The ancient reception of Euripides’ Bacchae from Athens to Byzantium 39
8. Images of Dionysus in Rome: the archaic and Augustan periods 85
9. Liber, Fufluns, and the others: rethinking Dionysus in Italy between the fifth and the third centuries BCE 111
10. Dionysian associations and the Bacchanalian affair 133
11. Dionysus/Bacchus/Liber in Cicero 157
12. Bacchus and the exiled Ovid (Tristia 5.3) 177
13. Alius furor. Statius’ Thebaid and the metamorphoses of Bacchus 193
14. The shadow of Bacchus: Liber and Dionysus in Christian Latin literature (2nd–4th centuries) 219
15. Index rerum et nominum 239
16. Index locorum 245
17. Index of inscriptions and visual artefacts 247