Dionysos in archaic Greece : an understanding through images /

For the Greek, Dionysos was a very important god: for individuals as well as for the community as a whole. As there are only a few written sources dating from before the 5th Century BC the many images of Dionysos on Greek vases may well offer a genuine approach to the meaning given by the ancient vi...

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Main Author: Isler-Kerényi, Cornelia.

Other Authors: Watson, Wilfred G. E.

Format: eBook

Language: English
Italian

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 160.
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, ISBN: 9789004299672.

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Dionysus > (Greek deity) > Art.

Dionysus > (Greek deity)

Vase-painting, Greek > Themes, motives.

Vases, Black-figured > Greece > Themes, motives.

Vases, Black-figured > Themes, motives.

Greece.

Art.

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Call Number: NK4648 .I8313 2007eb

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Table of Contents:

Preliminary Materials /
C. Isler-Kerényi
Introduction /
C. Isler-Kerényi
Chapter One. An Iconography In Process /
C. Isler-Kerényi
Chapter Two. Turning Into A Satyr: Small Vases From The First Half Of The 6th Century BCE /
C. Isler-Kerényi
Chapter Three. Dionysos And The Gods: Dinoi And Kraters From The First Half Of The 6th Century BCE /
C. Isler-Kerényi
Chapter Four. The Thiasos Of Dionysos: Amphorae And Similar Vases Of The 6th Century BCE /
C. Isler-Kerényi
Chapter Five. Dionysian Happiness: Cups And Other Small Vases From The Second Half Of The 6th Century BCE /
C. Isler-Kerényi
Chapter Six. Dionysos In Archaic Greek Art: A Summary /
C. Isler-Kerényi
Chapter Seven. Modern Mythologies: "Dionysos" Versus "Apollo" /
C. Isler-Kerényi
Works Cited /
C. Isler-Kerényi
Index /
C. Isler-Kerényi
Figures /
C. Isler-Kerényi.

Dionysos in archaic Greece : an understanding through images /

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