Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Transliteration and Abbreviation ix
5. Contributors xiii
6. Acknowledgments xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. INTERPRETATION
9. 1. “He Has a God in Him”: Human and Divine in the Modern Perception of Dionysus 13
10. 2. The Asexuality of Dionysus 44
11. 3. Dionysus Poured Out: Ancient and Modern Theories of Sacrifice and Cultural Formation 65
12. TRAGEDY
13. 4. Mixtures of Masks: Maenads as Tragic Models 89
14. 5. Dionysus as Destroyer of the Household: Homer, Tragedy, and the Polis 115
15. 6. Staging Dionysus between Thebes and Athens 147
16. IMAGE
17. 7. On the Beardless Dionysus 185
18. 8. On the Wildness of Satyrs 207
19. 9. Fufluns Pacha: The Etruscan Dionysus 221
20. MYSTERY CULT
21. 10. Dionysian and Orphic Eschatology: New Texts and Old Questions 239
22. 11. Bacchic Teletai in the Hellenistic Age 259
23. 12. Voices from beyond the Grave: Dionysus and the Dead 276
24. Glossary 297
25. Bibliography 303
26. Index of Passages Cited 331
27. Index of Greek, Latin, and Etruscan Words 335
28. General Index 339