Dionysos : archetypal image of indestructible life
No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. This work presents a historical account of the religion of Dionysos from its beginnings in the Minoan culture to its transition to a cosmic and cosmopolitan religion of late antiquity under the Roman Empire.
Print Book, English, 1996
Princeton University Press, Princeton (N.J.), 1996
XXXVII, 474 p. ill. 20 cm
9780691029153, 0691029156
1014903119
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionIMinoan Visions5IILight and Honey29IIIThe Cretan Core of the Dionysos Myth52IVThe Myths of Arrival129VDionysos Trieterikos, God of the Two-Year Period189VIThe Dionysos of the Athenians and of His Worshipers in the Greek Mysteries273Abbreviations391List of Works Cited393Index421A Note on C. Kerenyi445A Bibliography of C. Kerenyi447
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