Title A different god? : Dionysos and ancient polytheism / edited by Renate Schlesier

Published Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 667 pages, lxviii pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps Contents Preface -- [1] Newborn Dionysos as model. Infant gods and heroes in late antiquity / Glen W. Bowersock -- [2] Differences and common features. Dionysos : 'different' im Wandel der Zeiten : eine Skizze / Walter Burkert -- Heis Dionysos!, one Dionysos? : a polytheistic perspective / Hendrik S. Versnel -- Sacrificing to Dionysos : regular and particular rituals / Stella Georgoudi -- Cults of Dionysos : economic aspects / Marietta Horster -- 'Fremde Nähe' : zur mythologischen Differenz des Dionysos / Susanne Gödde -- Göttliche Präsenz als Differenz : dionysische Epiphanievorstellungen / Albert Henrichs -- [3] Dionysiac realms in perspective. Dionysos, the banquet and gender / Pauline Schmitt Pantel -- Eros reigns supreme : Dionysos' wedding on a new krater by the Dinos painter / Victoria Sabetai -- Dionysos, the wine and Ikarios : hospitality and danger / Philippe Borgeaud -- Der bakchische Gott / Renate Schlesier -- [4] Specific media of transmission. Dionysos in the mirror of philosophy : Heraclitus, Plato, Plotinus / Christian Wildberg -- Visual differences : Dionysos in ancient art / Susanne Moraw -- Dionysos and the blessed on Apulian red-figured vases / Thomas H. Carpenter -- Epigraphica dionysiaca / Susan Guettel Cole -- Dionysos in and out of the papyri / Dirk Obbink -- [5] Theatre and the polis of Athens. Athenian identity, Dionysiac festivals and the theatre / Natale Spineto -- Dionysos auf der Bühne : gattungsspezifische Aspekte des Theatergottes in Tragödie, Satyrspiel und Komödie / Anton Bierl -- Dionysos' many names in Aristophanes' Frogs / Andrew L. Ford -- Plädoyer für Pentheus, oder : vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Religion für die griechische Polis / Hans-Joachim Gehrke -- [6] Hellenistic and Roman paradigms. Inszenierungen von Göttlichkeit : die politische Rolle von Dionysos/Bacchus in der römischen Literatur / Therese Fuhrer -- Drei späthellenistische Dionysosweihungen : Bilder für Dionysos zwischen griechischer Votivpraxis und römischem Decorum / Alexander Heinemann -- Integrierte Andersartigkeit : die Rolle der dionysischen Vereine / Anne-Françoise Jaccottet -- Dionysos in Pergamon : ein polytheistisches Phänomen / Cornelia Isler-Kerényi -- 'Das hat nichts mit Osiris zu tun' : zur Verweigerung des Dionysos/Osiris-Synkretismus bei Pausanias / Christa Frateantonio -- [7] Modern reflections. Dionysos in nineteenth-century scholarship / Michael Konaris -- Der einstige Gott : Dionysos im modernen Griechenland / Oliver Leege -- Dionysos : eine Chiffre der ästhetischen Moderne / Roberto Sanchiño Martínez -- Re-reading Dionysos in the theater / Froma I. Zeitlin 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 indexes Notes Papers in German and English 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 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism. RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology. Cults Literature Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Schlesier, Renate, 1947- LC no. 2011039341 ISBN 9783110222357 3110222353

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