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Title A different god? : Dionysos and ancient polytheism / edited by Renate Schlesier
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 667 pages, 68 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Preface; Newborn Dionysos as Model; Infant Gods and Heroes in Late Antiquity: Dionysos' First Bath; Differences and Common Features; Dionysos -- 'different' im Wandel der Zeiten. Eine Skizze; Heis Dionysos1! -- One Dionysos? A Polytheistic Perspective; Sacrificing to Dionysos : Regular and Particular Rituals; Cults of Dionysos: Economic Aspects;, Fremde Nähe'. Zur mythologischen Differenz des Dionysos; Göttliche Präsenz als Differenz: Dionysos als epiphanischer Gott; Dionysiac Realms in Perspective; Dionysos, the Banquet and Gender
Eros Reigns Supreme: Dionysos' Wedding on a New Krater by the Dinos PainterDionysos, the Wine and Ikarios: Hospitality and Danger; Der bakchische Gott; Specific Media of Transmission; Dionysos in the Mirror of Philosophy: Heraclitus, Plato, and Plotinus; Visual Differences: Dionysos in Ancient Art; Dionysos and the Blessed on Apulian Red-Figured Vases; Epigraphica Dionysiaca; Dionysos in and out of the Papyri; Theatre and the Polis of Athens; Athenian Identity, Dionysiac Festivals and the Theatre
Dionysos auf der Bühne. Gattungsspezifische Aspekte des Theatergottes in Tragödie, Satyrspiel und KomödieDionysos' Many Names in Aristophanes' Frogs; Plädoyer für Pentheus oder: Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Religion für die griechische Polis; Hellenistic and Roman Paradigms; Inszenierungen von Göttlichkeit. Die politische Rolle von Dionysos/Bacchus in der römischen Literatur; Ein dekorativer Gott? Bilder für Dionysos zwischen griechischer Votivpraxis und römischem Decorum; Integrierte Andersartigkeit: Die Rolle der dionysischen Vereine; Dionysos in Pergamon. Ein polytheistisches Phänomen
Das hat nichts mit Osiris zu tun'. Zur Verweigerung des Dionysos/Osiris-Synkretismus bei PausaniasModern Reflections; Dionysos in Nineteenth-Century Scholarship; Der, wiedergeborene' Gott. Dionysos im modernen Griechenland; Dionysos -- eine Chiffre der ästhetischen Moderne; Re-Reading Dionysos in the Theater; Appendix; Contributors; General Abbreviations; Bibliographical Abbreviations; Bibliography; Indices; I. Names; 1. Personal Names; 2. Mythic and Cultic Names; 3. Geographical Names; II. Ancient Evidence; 1. Textual Evidence; 2. Archaeological Evidence; III. Terms; 1. Termini Technici
2. Greek Terms3. Latin Terms; Sources of Illustrations; Plates
Summary Within modern frameworks of knowledge and representation, Dionysos often appears to be atypical for ancient culture, an exception within the context of ancient polytheism, or even an instance of a difference that anticipates modernism. How can recent research contribute to a more precise understanding of the diverse transformations of the ancient god, from Greek antiquity to the Roman Empire? In this volume, which is the result of an international conference held in March 2009 at the Pergamon Museum Berlin, scholars from all branches of classical studies, including history of scholarship, cons
Notes Papers presented at an international conference held in March 2009 at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Papers in German and English
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Subject Dionysus (Greek deity) -- Congresses
Dionysus (Greek deity) -- Cult -- Congresses
Dionysus (Greek deity) -- Art -- Congresses
Dionysus (Greek deity) -- In literature -- Congresses
SUBJECT Dionysus (Greek deity) fast
Subject HISTORY / Ancient / Greece.
Cults
Literature
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Schlesier, Renate, 1947-
ISBN 9783110222357
3110222353