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Author: Valdis Leinieks Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110953056 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 416
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The volumes published in the series "Beiträge zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.
Author: Valdis Leinieks Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110953056 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 416
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The volumes published in the series "Beiträge zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.
Author: John J. Winkler Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691215898 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 434
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These critically diverse and innovative essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama. Theatrical productions, which included music and dancing, were civic events in honor of the god Dionysos and were attended by a politically stratified community, whose delegates handled all details from the seating arrangements to the qualifications of choral competitors. The growing complexity of these performances may have provoked the Athenian saying "nothing to do with Dionysos" implying that theater had lost its exclusive focus on its patron. This collection considers how individual plays and groups of dramas pertained to the concerns of the body politic and how these issues were presented in the convention of the stage and as centerpieces of civic ceremonies. The contributors, in addition to the editors, include Simon Goldhill, Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Franois Lissarrague, Oddone Longo, Nicole Loraux, Josiah Ober, Ruth Padel, James Redfield, Niall W. Slater, Barry Strauss, and Jesper Svenbro.
Author: Renate Schlesier Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110222353 Category : History Languages : de Pages : 751
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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, consider this question. Consequently, this leads to a new look on vase paintings, sanctuaries, rituals and religious-political institutions like theatre, and includes new readings of the texts of ancient poets, historians and philosophers, as well as of papyri and inscriptions. It is the diversity of sources or methods and the challenge of former views that is the strength of this volume, providing a comprehensive, innovative and richly faceted account of the “different” god in an unprecedented way.
Author: Alberto Bernabé Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110301326 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 658
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This book contributes to the understanding of Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, dancing, theatre and ecstasy, by putting together 30 studies of classical scholars. They combine the analysis of specific instances of particular dimensions of the god in cult, myth, literature and iconography, with general visions of Dionysos in antiquity and modern times. Only from the combination of different perspectives can we grasp the complex personality of Dionysos, and the forms of his presence in different cults, literary genres, and artistic forms, from Mycenaean times to late antiquity. The ways in which Dionysos was experienced may vary in each author, each cult, and each genre in which this god is involved. Therefore, instead of offering a new all-encompassing theory that would immediately become partial, the booknarrows the focus on specific aspects of the god. Redefinition does not mean finding (again) the essence of the god, but obtaining a more nuanced knowledge of the ways he was experienced and conceived in antiquity.
Author: Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag ISBN: 9783663124030 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : de Pages : 407
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The Aldine edition of the Bakchai, edited by Markos Mou souros, was published nearly five hundred years ago in 1503. The play has been read and studied ever since. Scholarly study of the play has been intense for the last two hundred years. The relevant parallel passages and many of the irrelevant ones have long since been collected and are readily available in excellent commentaries. In view of this, the play should by now be thoroughly explained and well understood. This, however, is not the case. If anything, the play seems to have become more obscure and challenging with the 1 passage of time. Twentieth-century scholars often refer to the problem or even the riddle of the play. There are at least three reasons why the play appears problem atic. One of these is the peculiar concept of the Dionysiac experi ence with which twentieth-century scholars approach the play. A recent interpreter at the beginning of his study writes: ''The Dionys iac includes the dissolution of limits, the spanning of logical con tradictions, the suspension of logically imposed categories, and the exploration of in-betweenness and reversibility in a spirit that may veer abruptly from play and wonder to unrestrained savagery. ,,2 Dionysos is understood as the god of the irrational or, more specifi cally, the god of the antirational. He dissolves basic principles in volved in human perception of the world.
Author: Cornelia Isler-Kerényi Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004270124 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 310
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Dionysos, with his following of satyrs and women, was a major theme in a big part of the figure painted pottery in 500-300 B.C. Athens. As an original testimonial of their time, the imagery on these vases convey what this god meant to his worshippers. It becomes clear that he was not only appropriate for wine, wine indulgence, ecstasy and theatre. Rather, he was presenton many, both happy and sad, occasions. The vase painters have emphasized different aspects of Dionysos for their customers inside and outside of Athens, depending on the political and cultural situation.
Author: Richard Seaford Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134344503 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 205
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Covering a wide range of issues which have been overlooked in the past, including mystery, cult and philosophy, Richard Seaford explores Dionysos – one of the most studied figures of the ancient Greek gods. Popularly known as the god of wine and frenzied abandon, and an influential figure for theatre where drama originated as part of the cult of Dionysos, Seaford goes beyond the mundane and usual to explore the history and influence of this god as never before. As a volume in the popular Gods and Heroes series, this is an indispensible introduction to the subject, and an excellent reference point for higher-level study.
Author: D. Clint Burnett Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110691795 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 244
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Given the dearth of non-messianic interpretations of Psalm 110:1 in non-Christian Second Temple Jewish texts, why did it become such a widely used messianic prooftext in the New Testament and early Christianity? Previous attempts to answer this question have focused on why the earliest Christians first began to use Ps 110:1. The result is that these proposals do not provide an adequate explanation for why first century Christians living in the Greek East employed the verse and also applied it to Jesus’s exaltation. I contend that two Greco-Roman politico-religious practices, royal and imperial temple and throne sharing—which were cross-cultural rewards that Greco-Roman communities bestowed on beneficent, pious, and divinely approved rulers—contributed to the widespread use of Ps 110:1 in earliest Christianity. This means that the earliest Christians interpreted Jesus’s heavenly session as messianic and thus political, as well as religious, in nature.
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