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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1;Acknowledgements;5 2;Introduction;11 3;Walter F. Ottos Dionysos (1933);14 4;Dionysos in the Mycenaean World;33 5;The Term ß..... and Dionysos .......;48 6;Apollo and Dionysos: Intersections;68 7;Rien pour Dionysos? Le dithyrambe comme forme poétique entre Apollon et Dionysos;92 8;Redefining Dionysos in Athens from the Written Sources: The Lenaia, lacchos and Attic Women;110 9;Gender Differentiation and Role Models in the Worship of Dionysos: The Thracian and Thessalian Pattern;130 10;Dionysos versus Orpheus?;154 11;Maenadic Ecstasy in Greece: Fact or Fiction?;169 12;Maenadic Ecstasy in Rome: Fact or Fiction?;195 13;Dioniso e i cani di Atteone in Eumelo di Corinto (Una nuova ipotesi su P. Oxy. xxx 2509 e Apollod. 3.4.4);210 14;Dionysos in the Homeric Hymns: the Olympian Portrait of the God;245 15;Herodotus Egyptian Dionysos. A Comparative Perspective;260 16;Dushara and Allat alias Dionysos and Aphrodite in Herodotus 3.8;271 17;The Sophoclean Dionysos;282 18;Under the Spell of the Dionysian: Some Meta-tragic Aspects of the Xenos Attributes in Euripides Bacchae;311 19;The Image of Dionysos in Euripides Bacchae: The God and his Epiphanies;339 20;The Names of Dionysos in Euripides Bacchae and the Rhetorical Language of Teiresias;359 21;Dionysos in Old Comedy. Staging of Experiments on Myth and Cult;376 22;Dionysian Enthusiasm in Plato;396 23;Les Dionysoi de Patras: Le mythe et le culte de Dionysos dans la Periégèse de Pausanias;411 24;Dionysos in Egypt? Epaphian Dionysos in the Orphic Hymns;425 25;Dioniso tra polinomia ed enoteismo: il caso degli Inni Orfici;443 26;Dionysos and Dionysism in the Third Book of Maccabees;462 27;Parallels between Dionysos and Christ in Late Antiquity: Miraculous Healings in Nonnus Dionysiaca;474 28;The Gifts of Dionysos;498 29;The Symposiast Dionysos: A God like Ourselves;514 30;Bacchus and Felines in Roman Iconography: Issues of Gender and Species;536 31;An Augustan Trend towards Dionysos: Around the Auditorium of Maecenas;551 32;Dionysos
: One or Many?;564 33;Contributors;593 34;Analytic Index;596 35;Index Fontium;624
