Dionysos

Dionysos

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-158

  Seaford, Richard ^a  

^a Department of Classics ^*  (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203358016     Document Type: Book

References (32)

1. Bierl, A. F. (1991), Dionysos und die griechische Tragödie. Tübingen: Classica Monacensia 1. An exhaustive account of the mentions of Dionysos in tragedy.
2. Bruhl, A. (1953), Liber Pater. Paris. A comprehensive account of the Roman god who was identified with Dionysos.
3. Burkert., W. (1987), Ancient Mystery Cult. Harvard University Press. The best existing treatment of its theme.
4. Carpenter, T. H. (1986), Dionysian Imagery in Archaic Greek Art. Oxford: Clarendon Press. A cautious and well-illustrated treatment. What survives is almost entirely vase-painting.
5. Carpenter, T. H. (1997), Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-Century Athens. Oxford: Clarendon Press. A cautious and well-illustrated treatment. What survives is almost entirely vase-painting.
6. Carpenter, T. H. and Faraone, C. A. (1993), The Masks of Dionysos. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. A collection of essays by various scholars on various aspects of the god, with an excellent bibliography.
7. Casadio, G. (1999), Il Vino dell' Anima. Storia del culto di Dioniso a Corinto, Sicione, Trezene. Rome: Il Calamo. An example of what can be extracted from focusing on a single region of Greece.
8. Detienne, M. (1979), Dionysos Slain (translation of Dionysos mis à mort, Paris 1977). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Contains a structuralist account of the political significance of the myth of the killing of Dionysos.
9. Dodds, E. R. (1960), Euripides Bacchae (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. Contains the Greek text and influential Introduction and Commentary.
10. Henrichs, A. (1978), 'Greek Maenadism from Olympia to Messalina', Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 82.121-60. The best historical account of maenadism, based largely on inscriptions.
11. Henrichs, A. (1982), 'Changing Dionysiac Identities', in B. F. Meyer and E. P. Sanders (eds), Self-Definition in the Graeco-Roman World. London. 137-60, 213-36. Largely on the relation of individual to group in Dionysiac cult.
12. Henrichs, A. (1984), 'Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: the Modern View of Dionysus from Nietzsche to Girard', Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 88.205-40. A critical overview of modern accounts of Dionysos.
13. Isler-Kerényi, C. (2001), Dionysos nella Grecia arcaica. Pisa and Rome: Istituti Editorialie Poligrafici Internazionali. An account of Dionysos, and his retinue, in archaic painting that (in contrast to Carpenter) introduces anthropological and historical perspectives.
14. Jaccottet, A. -F. (2003), Choisir Dionysos. Les Associations Dionysiaques ou la face cachée du Dionysisme. Zurich: Akanthus. An indispensable collection and discussion of the numerous inscriptions relating to Dionysiac associations.
15. Kerényi, C. (1976), Dionysos. Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life (translated from the German by R. Mannheim). London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. A Jungian account, with an enormous range of material.
16. Lada-Richards I. (1999), Initiating Dionysos. Oxford University Press. Dionysos as god of mystery-cult is brought to bear on interpreting Aristophanes' Frogs.
17. Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (1986), vol. 3, 1.414-566, 2.296-456 (plates). A very extensive list of visual images of Dionysos.
18. McGinty, P. (1978), Interpretation and Dionysos. The Hague: Mouton. A lucid account of modern interpretations of Dionysos.
19. Matz, F. (1968-75), Die Dionysische Sarkophage. 4 vols. Berlin. Collects the large number of tombs of the imperial period sculpted with reliefs on Dionysiac themes.
20. Nietzsche, F. (1872), Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geist der Musik. (republished by Reclam, Stuttgart, 1993). Contains a seminal account of the Dionysiac.
21. Nilsson, M. P. (1957), The Dionysiac Mysteries of the Hellenistic and Roman Age. Lund. Somewhat out of date, but one of the very few works of Nilsson to have been translated into English. Other works contain much about Dionysos, for example his two-volume history of Greek religion (Geschichte der griechischen Religion).
22. Otto, W.F. (1965), Dionysus. Myth and cult (translated from the German of 1933). Indiana University Press. An ahistorical vision of Dionysos as the embodiment of epiphany and contradiction.
23. Parker, R. (2005). Polytheism and Society at Athens. Oxford University Press. Contains a good recent account of the Dionysiac festivals at Athens.
24. Rohde, E. (1925) [1894], Psyche. The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the Ancient Greeks (translation from the German (8th edition), reprinted 1987). London: Kegan Paul. Contains an influential account of Dionysiac cult as a cult of souls. Rohde believed that Dionysos arrived in Greece from Thrace, but has now been contradicted by the discovery of Bronze Age texts.
25. Seaford, R. (1996), Euripides Bacchae. Aris and Phillips. Introduction, Greek text, Translation and Commentary. Adduces politics and mystery-cult.
26. Versnel, H. (1990), Ter Unis. Isis, Dionysos, Hermes: Three Studies in Henotheism. Leiden: E. J. Brill. Illuminates Euripides' Bacchae from a historical perspective that includes general discussion of the introduction of new gods into Athens.
27. Bérard, C. (1974), Anodoi. Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana 13. Neuchâtel.
28. Coldiron, M. J. (2004), Trance and the Transformation of the Actor in Japanese Noh and Balinese Masked Dance-Drama. Edwin Mellen Press.
29. Dodds E. R. (1951), The Greeks and the Irrational. University of California Press.
30. Haenchen, E. (1971), The Acts of the Apostles. A Commentary. Oxford: Blackwell.
31. Keuls, E. (1997), Painter and Poet in Ancient Greece. Stuttgart: Teubner.
32. Rouget, G. (1985), Music and Trance. Chicago University Press.