Redefining Dionysos

Author : Alberto Bernabé,Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui,Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal,Raquel Martín Hernández
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110301328

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Redefining Dionysos by Alberto Bernabé,Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui,Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal,Raquel Martín Hernández Pdf

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 booknarrows 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.

Author : Alberto Bernabé,Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui,Ana Isabel Jim Nez San Crist Bal,Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal,Raquel Mart Hern Ndez,Raquel Martín Hernández
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110301334

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Redefining Dionysos by Alberto Bernabé,Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui,Ana Isabel Jim Nez San Crist Bal,Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal,Raquel Mart Hern Ndez,Raquel Martín Hernández Pdf

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.

Author : Miguel Herrero de Járegui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1348155724

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Redefining Dionysos by Miguel Herrero de Járegui Pdf

Author : Jonathan J. Price,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429656354

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Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama by Jonathan J. Price,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz Pdf

This collection presents 19 interconnected studies on the language, history, exegesis, and cultural setting of Greek epic and dramatic poetic texts ("Text") and their afterlives ("Intertext") in Antiquity. Spanning texts from Hittite archives to Homer to Greek tragedy and comedy to Vergil to Celsus, the studies here were all written by friends and colleagues of Margalit Finkelberg who are experts in their particular fields, and who have all been influenced by her work. The papers offer close readings of individual lines and discussion of widespread cultural phenomena. Readers will encounter Hittite precedents to the Homeric poems, characters in ancient epic analysed by modern cognitive theory, the use of Homer in Christian polemic, tragic themes of love and murder, a history of the Sphinx, and more. Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama offers a selection of fascinating essays exploring Greek epic, drama, and their reception and adaption by other ancient authors, and will be of interest to anyone working on Greek literature.

Author : Corinne Bonnet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009394772

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The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions by Corinne Bonnet Pdf

From Greece to Palmyra, Tyre to Babylon, the names of the gods reveal their fields of competence and action. Through the study of divine names, the twelve chapters of this book unfold a gallery of portraits that reveal the changing aspects of the divine throughout the ancient Mediterranean.

Author : Donghyun Jeong
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110791501

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Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries by Donghyun Jeong Pdf

This monograph provides an alternative model for looking at the old question about Paul and the mysteries in a new light. Specifically, this study compares rituals—baptism in the Pauline communities and the initiation rituals of the mysteries—through the lens of cultural anthropology and the sociology of religion. Three research questions lead the project: What benefits does each initiation ritual promise its participants? What are the underlying messages or structures that guarantee the efficacy of those rituals? How and to what extent is the initiation ritual connected to the participants’ cognition and ethics beyond initiation itself? Taking those questions as the analytical framework, this study substantiates two points: first, in terms of ritual messages, baptism in the Pauline communities is a ritual analogous to mystery initiation, and second, Paul is an innovative interpreter of ritual who recalibrates the messages of preexisting rituals for his theological and ethical program, seeking to radically extend the implications of initiation to the embodied life of every Christ-believer. Students and scholars of New Testament, early Christianity, classics, and ritual studies will benefit from engaging this volume.

Author : Filip Doroszewski,Dariusz Karłowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000392418

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Dionysus and Politics by Filip Doroszewski,Dariusz Karłowicz Pdf

This volume presents an essential but underestimated role that Dionysus played in Greek and Roman political thought. Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, the volume covers the period from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire. The reader can observe how ideas and political themes rooted in Greek classical thought were continued, adapted and developed over the course of history. The authors (including four leading experts in the field: Cornelia Isler-Kerényi, Jean-Marie Pailler, Richard Seaford andRichard Stoneman) reconstruct the political significance of Dionysus by examining different types of evidence: historiography, poetry, coins, epigraphy, art and philosophy. They discuss the place of the god in Greek city-state politics, explore the long tradition of imitating Dionysus that ancient leaders, from Alexander the Great to the Roman emperors, manifested in various ways, and shows how the political role of Dionysus was reflected in Orphism and Neoplatonist philosophy. Dionysus and Politics provides an excellent introduction to a fundamental feature of ancient political thought which until now has been largely neglected by mainstream academia. The book will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars interested in ancient politics and religion.

Author : Fiachra Mac Góráin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110672312

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Dionysus and Rome by Fiachra Mac Góráin Pdf

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.

Author : Paulo Martins
Publisher : Paulo Martins
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788575063712

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Augustan Poetry. New Trends and Revaluations by Paulo Martins Pdf

Author : Adam Lecznar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108482561

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Dionysus after Nietzsche by Adam Lecznar Pdf

Explores how, after Nietzsche, Dionysus and the ancient Greeks would never be the same again.

Author : Carlos A. Segovia,Sofya Shaikut Segovia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004538597

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Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism by Carlos A. Segovia,Sofya Shaikut Segovia Pdf

This book recovers Dionysus and Apollo as the twin conceptual personae of life’s dual rhythm in an attempt to redesign contemporary theory through the reciprocal but differential affirmation of event and form, body and thought, dance and philosophy.

Author : Courtney J.P. Friesen
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161538137

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Reading Dionysus by Courtney J.P. Friesen Pdf

Courtney J. P. Friesen explores shifting boundaries of ancient religions by way of the reception of a popular tragedy, Euripides' Bacchae. As a play staging political crises provoked by the arrival of the foreign god Dionysus and his ecstatic cult, audiences and readers found resonances with their own cultural moments. This dramatic deity became emblematic of exuberant and liberating spirituality and, at the same time, a symbol of imperial conquest. Thus, readings of the Bacchae frequently foreground conflicts between religious autonomy and political authority, and between ethnic diversity and social cohesion. This cross-disciplinary study traces appropriations and evocations of this drama ranging from the fifth century BCE through Byzantium not only among pagans but also Jews and Christians. Writers variously articulated their religious visions over against Dionysus, often while paradoxically adopting the god's language and symbols. Consequently, imitation and emulati on are at times indistinguishable from polemics and subversion.

Author : William Levitan,Stanley Lombardo
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472038961

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Tales of Dionysus by William Levitan,Stanley Lombardo Pdf

The first English verse translation of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

Author : José Marcos Macedo,Daniel Kölligan,Pedro Barbieri
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783958261549

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Polyónymoi by José Marcos Macedo,Daniel Kölligan,Pedro Barbieri Pdf

The Orphic Hymns consist of a prooemium and 87 hymns addressed to several deities in a late Orphic initiation of sorts. They were composed probably in Asia Minor during the second or third century CE. The bulk of these hymns are made up of divine epithets often linked together in chains of considerable length. The lexicon attempts to give a comprehensive account of the roughly 850 epithets, bringing together the most relevant information scattered in the scholarly literature and adding others from various sources (literary, epigraphic, lexicographic, scholia etc.) in order to provide an overview of their usage and the main details of their models.

Author : Albert Henrichs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110449242

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Greek Myth and Religion by Albert Henrichs Pdf

This volume contains the collected papers of Albert Henrichs on numerous subjects in ancient Greek myth and religion. What was ancient Greek religion really like? What is the reality of belief and action that lies behind the unwieldy sources, which stem from vast areas and epochs of the ancient world? What is the meaning, intended and otherwise, of religious action and speech in ancient Greece? Who were the Greek gods, how were they worshipped, and how were they viewed by those who worshipped them? One of the leading students of ancient Greek religion over the past five decades, Albert Henrichs, the Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University, combines wide and deep learning, a pragmatic, incisive approach to the sources, and an apt use of comparative perspectives. Henrichs breaks new ground in discussing sacrifice, libation, cultic identity, religious action and speech, epiphany, and the personalities of the gods. Special attention is devoted to ancient Greek sources on the ancient Persian prophet Mani, founder of Manichaeism. As a group, Albert Henrichs’ papers on Greek religion offer a basic education on Greek myth and religion and constitute a blueprint for serious study of the subject.