Masks of Dionysus

Published by Cornell University Press 1993

Masks of Dionysus

Edited by: Thomas H. Carpenter and Christopher A. Faraone

In the series Myth and Poetics

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733680

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About this book

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.

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Thomas H. Carpenter is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Christopher A. Faraone is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Transliteration and Abbreviation Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Introduction Christopher A. Faraone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
INTERPRETATION
1. “He Has a God in Him”: Human and Divine in the Modern Perception of Dionysus Albert Henrichs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. The Asexuality of Dionysus Michael Jameson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
3. Dionysus Poured Out: Ancient and Modern Theories of Sacrifice and Cultural Formation Dirk Obbink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
TRAGEDY
4. Mixtures of Masks: Maenads as Tragic Models Renate Schlesier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
5. Dionysus as Destroyer of the Household: Homer, Tragedy, and the Polis Richard Seaford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
6. Staging Dionysus between Thebes and Athens Froma I. Zeitlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
IMAGE
7. On the Beardless Dionysus Thomas H. Carpenter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
8. On the Wildness of Satyrs François Lissarrague Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
9. Fufluns Pacha: The Etruscan Dionysus Larissa Bonfante Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
MYSTERY CULT
10. Dionysian and Orphic Eschatology: New Texts and Old Questions Fritz Graf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
11. Bacchic Teletai in the Hellenistic Age Walter Burkert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
12. Voices from beyond the Grave: Dionysus and the Dead Susan Guettel Cole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index of Passages Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Index of Greek, Latin, and Etruscan Words Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 24 halftones
Keywords: Literary Studies; Ancient History & Classical Studies

eBook

Published: July 15, 2019
ISBN: 9781501733680