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Author : Walter F. Otto
Release : 1965
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 910/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dionysus by : Walter F. Otto
Download or read book Dionysus written by Walter F. Otto. This book was released on 1965. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study of Dionysus . . . is also a new theogony of Early Greece." —Publishers Weekly "An original analysis . . . of the spiritual significance of the Greek myth and cult of Dionysus." —Theology Digest
Author : Fiachra Mac Góráin
Release : 2019-12-16
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 316/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dionysus and Rome by : Fiachra Mac Góráin
Download or read book Dionysus and Rome written by Fiachra Mac Góráin. This book was released on 2019-12-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most work on Dionysus is based on Greek sources, this collection of essays examines the god’s Roman and Italian manifestations. Nine contributions address Bacchus’ appearance at the crossroads of Greek and Roman cultures, tracing continuities and differences between literary and archaeological sources for the god. The essays offer coverage of Dionysus in Roman art, Italian epigraphy; Latin poetry including epic, drama and elegy; and prose, including historiography, rhetorical and Christian discourse. The introduction offers an overview of the presence of Dionysus in Italy from the archaic to the imperial periods, identifying the main scholarly trends, with treatment of key Dionysian episodes in Roman history and literature. Individual chapters address the reception of Euripides’ Bacchae across Greek and Roman literature from Athens to Byzantium; Dionysus in Roman art of the archaic and Augustan periods; the god’s relationship with Fufluns and Liber in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE; Dionysian associations; Bacchus in Cicero; Ovid’s Tristia 5.3; Bacchus in the writings of Christian Latin writers. The collection sheds light on a relatively understudied aspect of Dionysus, and will stimulate further research in this area.
Author : Michel Maffesoli
Release : 1993-01-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 398/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Shadow of Dionysus by : Michel Maffesoli
Download or read book The Shadow of Dionysus written by Michel Maffesoli. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maffesoli presents a powerful argument for understanding everyday life by examining the passional logic that animates the social body. He asserts that the "circulation of sexuality," as much as the circulation of goods and services or language, is a structural component of sociality. By examining the dionysian adventure (passion, bonds of shared emotion, communal feeling), he redefines the problems of sociality and the strong hedonistic ethics present in contemporary daily life.
Author : Rose Pfeffer
Release : 1972
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 692/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Nietzsche: Disciple of Dionysus by : Rose Pfeffer
Download or read book Nietzsche: Disciple of Dionysus written by Rose Pfeffer. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rafael López-Pedraza
Release : 2000
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Synopsis Dionysus in Exile by : Rafael López-Pedraza
Download or read book Dionysus in Exile written by Rafael López-Pedraza. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally renowned Jungian analyst Lopez-Pedraza diagnoses the psychological illness at the core of modern society--the loss of embodied soulfulness in people's lives. In this study of the Greek god Dionysus, he offers insight for a cure. This book may be worth several years in psychotherapy, if one takes its message to heart. Dismemberment and cannibalism, Prometheus and Titanic nature, mystical experience, the communal aspect of Dionysiac worship, jazz, flamenco, and bullfighting are among the many twists and turns taken in this essay that wends its way through issues of the body and emotion to open hidden doors for psychotherapy and to cast new light on post-modern humanity.
