| Description |
xviii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Myth and poetics |
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Myth and poetics.
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| Contents |
Foreword / Gregory Nagy -- Introduction / Christopher A. Faraone -- Interpretation. 1. "He Has a God in Him": Human and Divine in the Modern Perception of Dionysus / Albert Henrichs. 2. The Asexuality of Dionysus / Michael Jameson. 3. Dionysus Poured Out: Ancient and Modern Theories of Sacrifice and Cultural Formation / Dirk Obbink -- Tragedy. 4. Mixtures of Masks: Maenads as Tragic Models / Renate Schlesier. 5. Dionysus as Destroyer of the Household: Homer, Tragedy, and the Polis / Richard Seaford. 6. Staging Dionysus between Thebes and Athens / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Image. 7. On the Beardless Dionysus / Thomas H. Carpenter. 8. On the Wildness of Satyrs / Francois Lissarrague. 9. Fufluns Pacha: The Etruscan Dionysus / Larissa Bonfante -- Mystery Cult. 10. Dionysian and Orphic Eschatology: New Texts and Old Questions / Fritz Graf. 11. Bacchic Teletai in the Hellenistic Age / Walter Burkert. 12. Voices from beyond the Grave: Dionysus and the Dead / Susan Guettel Cole |
| Analysis |
Dionysus (Greek deity) - Cult) |
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Greek literature - History and criticism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-329) and index |
| Subject |
Dionysus (Greek deity) -- Cult.
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Dionysus (Greek deity) -- In literature
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Euripides. Bacchae.
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Euripides. Bacchae. English.
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Bacchantes.
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Dionysia.
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Greek literature -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Carpenter, Thomas H.
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Faraone, C. A. (Christopher A.)
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| LC no. |
92054965 |
| ISBN |
0801427797 (alk. paper) |
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0801480620 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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