The Triumph of Dionysos: Convivial processions, from antiquity to the presend day

by: Boardman, J.

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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.

Contents
Preface ;
THE DIONYSIAC PROCESSION IN EARLY GREECE ;
THE EGYPTIAN CONNECTION: STAGING THE TRIUMPH ;
DIONYSOS AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN THE EAST ;
THE PROCESSION IN HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN ART AND LIFE ;
THE ORIENTAL SUCCESSION ;
THE RENAISSANCE ;
THE MODERN WORLD

The Triumph of Dionysos: Convivial processions, from antiquity to the presend day

by: Boardman, J.

• ISBN-13: 9781905739707 / 978-1-905739-70-7
• ISBN-03: 1905739702 / 1-905739-70-2
• Archaeopress, Oxford, 2014

Price: 25,00 EURO

1 copy in stock