Masks of Dionysus / / ed. by Thomas H. Carpenter, Christopher A. Faraone.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bonfante, Larissa,; Burkert, Walter,; Carpenter, Thomas H.,; Cole, Susan Guettel,; Faraone, Christopher A.,; Graf, Fritz,; Henrichs, Albert,; Jameson, Michael,; Lissarrague, François,; Obbink, Dirk,; Schlesier, Renate,; Seaford, Richard,; Zeitlin, Froma I.,
• HerausgeberIn: Carpenter, Thomas H.,; Faraone, Christopher A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Myth and Poetics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 24 halftones

The most complex of all the Greek gods—master of madness and intoxication, phallic deity, urbane inventor of wine and of the symposium, patron of Athenian music and drama, merciless hunter, comforter of the dying—the figure of Dionysus has fascinated artists, philosophers, and poets for over two thousand years.Numbering among its contributors an international group of scholars, including philologists, historians of religion, epigraphers, art historians, classicists, and archaeologists, Masks of Dionysus examines specific historical and social contexts of the image of Dionysus in the Greek world and considers his influences in the modern world, particularly during the last two centuries. The twelve essays, all either new or published in this form in English for the first time, address such subjects as the influence of Dionysus on Greek tragedy and art, his connection with mystery religions and concepts of the afterlife, and the spread of his cult to Etruria. Representing some of the most fruitful recent approaches to the phenomenon of Dionysus and well illustrated, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of classical literature and ancient history, the history of religion, art history, classical philology, and archaeology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Transliteration and Abbreviation -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- INTERPRETATION -- 1. “He Has a God in Him”: Human and Divine in the Modern Perception of Dionysus -- 2. The Asexuality of Dionysus -- 3. Dionysus Poured Out: Ancient and Modern Theories of Sacrifice and Cultural Formation -- TRAGEDY -- 4. Mixtures of Masks: Maenads as Tragic Models -- 5. Dionysus as Destroyer of the Household: Homer, Tragedy, and the Polis -- 6. Staging Dionysus between Thebes and Athens -- IMAGE -- 7. On the Beardless Dionysus -- 8. On the Wildness of Satyrs -- 9. Fufluns Pacha: The Etruscan Dionysus -- MYSTERY CULT -- 10. Dionysian and Orphic Eschatology: New Texts and Old Questions -- 11. Bacchic Teletai in the Hellenistic Age -- 12. Voices from beyond the Grave: Dionysus and the Dead -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages Cited -- Index of Greek, Latin, and Etruscan Words -- General Index