Dionysus and Rome : religion and literature

Weitere Verfasser: Mac Góráin, Fiachra , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019].
Umfang/Format: 248 pages
Schriftenreihe: Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes 93
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction. Dionysus in Rome: accommodation and resistance
  • The ancient reception of Euripides’ Bacchae from Athens to Byzantium
  • Images of Dionysus in Rome: the archaic and Augustan periods
  • Liber, Fufluns, and the others: rethinking Dionysus in Italy between the fifth and the third centuries BCE
  • Dionysian associations and the Bacchanalian affair
  • Dionysus/Bacchus/Liber in Cicero
  • Bacchus and the exiled Ovid (Tristia 5.3)
  • Alius furor. Statius’ Thebaid and the metamorphoses of Bacchus
  • The shadow of Bacchus: Liber and Dionysus in Christian Latin literature (2nd–4th centuries)
  • Index rerum et nominum
  • Index locorum
  • Index of inscriptions and visual artefacts