Dionysos in classical Athens : an understanding through images /

Dionysos in classical Athens : an understanding through images /

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 - contrary to what is usua...

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Main Author: Isler-Kerényi, Cornelia.

Other Authors: Beerens, Anna, 1957-

Format: eBook

Language: English
German

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2015.

Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 181.
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, ISBN: 9789004299672.

Subjects:

Dionysus > (Greek deity)
Dionysus > (Greek deity) > Cult.
Vase-painting, Greek > Greece > Athens.
Vases, Red-figured > Greece > Athens.
Cults.
Vase-painting, Greek.
Vases, Red-figured.
Greece > Athens.
Art.

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Call Number: BL820.B2 I7 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Dionysiac Subjects in Red-Figure Pottery
  • Dionysos for Athens, Dionysos for All
  • All Kinds of Satyrs
  • Dionysos, a God for the Athenians
  • Dionysiac Mythology in Flux
  • Unfamiliar and Unknown Dionysiac Rituals
  • A New Dionysos at the Parthenon
  • The New Dionysos in Vase Painting
  • Images of Dionysos from 430 BC onwards
  • Summing Up.