| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
| Contents |
Preface; THE DIONYSIAC PROCESSION IN EARLY GREECE; THE EGYPTIAN CONNECTION: STAGING THE TRIUMPH; DIONYSOS AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN THE EAST; THE PROCESSION IN HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN ART AND LIFE; THE ORIENTAL SUCCESSION; THE RENAISSANCE; THE MODERN WORLD |
| Summary |
Dionysos carried the blessing of wine to the whole world, and his triumphant return from India became a popular subject for the arts of Greece and Rome in many media. It became associated with Alexander the Great's comparable victories and later served as a message of immortality for any mortal prince. The iconography survived the ancient world into Renaissance and neo-Classical arts, and may even have contributed to the practices of modern circus parades with their wild animals, maenad-snake-charmers and clown-satyrs: an unusual, indeed unique, survival |
| Notes |
Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 16, 2016) |
| Subject |
Dionysus (Greek deity)
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| SUBJECT |
Dionysus (Greek deity) fast |
| Subject |
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Archaeopress, publisher.
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| ISBN |
1905739737 |
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9781905739738 |
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