Redefining Dionysos (eBook)

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Alberto Bernabé, Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal and Raquel Martín Hernández,Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Acknowledgements 5
Introduction 11
Walter F. Otto’s Dionysos (1933) 14
Dionysos in the Mycenaean World 33
The Term ß..... and Dionysos ....... 48
Apollo and Dionysos: Intersections 68
‘Rien pour Dionysos?’ Le dithyrambe comme forme poétique entre Apollon et Dionysos 92
Redefining Dionysos in Athens from the Written Sources: The Lenaia, lacchos and Attic Women 110
Gender Differentiation and Role Models in the Worship of Dionysos: The Thracian and Thessalian Pattern 130
Dionysos versus Orpheus? 154
Maenadic Ecstasy in Greece: Fact or Fiction? 169
Maenadic Ecstasy in Rome: Fact or Fiction? 195
Dioniso e i cani di Atteone in Eumelo di Corinto (Una nuova ipotesi su P. Oxy. xxx 2509 e Apollod. 3.4.4) 210
Dionysos in the Homeric Hymns: the Olympian Portrait of the God 245
Herodotus’ Egyptian Dionysos. A Comparative Perspective 260
Dushara and Allat alias Dionysos and Aphrodite in Herodotus 3.8 271
The Sophoclean Dionysos 282
Under the Spell of the Dionysian: Some Meta-tragic Aspects of the Xenos Attributes in Euripides’ Bacchae 311
The Image of Dionysos in Euripides’ Bacchae: The God and his Epiphanies 339
The Names of Dionysos in Euripides’ Bacchae and the Rhetorical Language of Teiresias 359
Dionysos in Old Comedy. Staging of Experiments on Myth and Cult 376
Dionysian Enthusiasm in Plato 396
Les ‘Dionysoi’ de Patras: Le mythe et le culte de Dionysos dans la Periégèse de Pausanias 411
Dionysos in Egypt? Epaphian Dionysos in the Orphic Hymns 425
Dioniso tra polinomia ed enoteismo: il caso degli Inni Orfici 443
Dionysos and Dionysism in the Third Book of Maccabees 462
Parallels between Dionysos and Christ in Late Antiquity: Miraculous Healings in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca 474
The Gifts of Dionysos 498
The Symposiast Dionysos: A God like Ourselves 514
Bacchus and Felines in Roman Iconography: Issues of Gender and Species 536
An Augustan Trend towards Dionysos: Around the ‘Auditorium of Maecenas’ 551
Dionysos: One or Many? 564
Contributors 593
Analytic Index 596
Index Fontium 624