Dionysus and Rome : : Religion and Literature / / ed. by Fiachra Mac Góráin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Mac Góráin, Fiachra,; Manuwald, Gesine,; Massa, Francesco,; Miano, Daniele,; Miller, John F.,; Perris, Simon,; Schiesaro, Alessandro,; Steinhauer, Julietta,; Wyler, Stéphanie,
• HerausgeberIn: Mac Góráin, Fiachra,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 93
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

While most work on Dionysus is based on Greek sources, this collection of essays examines the god’s Roman and Italian manifestations.Nine contributions address Bacchus’ appearance at the crossroads of Greek and Roman cultures, tracing continuities and differences between literary and archaeological sources for the god. The essays offer coverage of Dionysus in Roman art, Italian epigraphy; Latin poetry including epic, drama and elegy; and prose, including historiography, rhetorical and Christian discourse.The introduction offers an overview of the presence of Dionysus in Italy from the archaic to the imperial periods, identifying the main scholarly trends, with treatment of key Dionysian episodes in Roman history and literature. Individual chapters address the reception of Euripides’ Bacchae across Greek and Roman literature from Athens to Byzantium; Dionysus in Roman art of the archaic and Augustan periods; the god’s relationship with Fufluns and Liber in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE; Dionysian associations; Bacchus in Cicero; Ovid’s Tristia 5.3; Bacchus in the writings of Christian Latin writers.The collection sheds light on a relatively understudied aspect of Dionysus, and will stimulate further research in this area.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction. Dionysus in Rome: accommodation and resistance -- The ancient reception of Euripides’ Bacchae from Athens to Byzantium -- Images of Dionysus in Rome: the archaic and Augustan periods -- Liber, Fufluns, and the others: rethinking Dionysus in Italy between the fifth and the third centuries BCE -- Dionysian associations and the Bacchanalian affair -- Dionysus/Bacchus/Liber in Cicero -- Bacchus and the exiled Ovid (Tristia 5.3) -- Alius furor. Statius’ Thebaid and the metamorphoses of Bacchus -- The shadow of Bacchus: Liber and Dionysus in Christian Latin literature (2nd–4th centuries) -- Index rerum et nominum -- Index locorum -- Index of inscriptions and visual artefacts