The triumph of Dionysos : convivial processions, from antiquity to the present day /
Dionysos carried the blessing of wine to the whole world, and his triumphant return from India became a popular subject for the arts of Greece and Rome in many media. It became associated with Alexander the Great's comparable victories and later served as a message of immortality for any mortal...
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Call Number: BL820.B2
| Summary: | Dionysos carried the blessing of wine to the whole world, and his triumphant return from India became a popular subject for the arts of Greece and Rome in many media. It became associated with Alexander the Great's comparable victories and later served as a message of immortality for any mortal prince. The iconography survived the ancient world into Renaissance and neo-Classical arts, and may even have contributed to the practices of modern circus parades with their wild animals, maenad-snake-charmers and clown-satyrs: an unusual, indeed unique, survival. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| ISBN: | 9781905739738 (PDF ebook) : |