Dionysos at large
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TextSeries: (Revealing antiquity: 1)Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press c1989Description: 90p.; bibliog. notes; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 0674207734
- BL820.B2 D4513 1989
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Translation of: Dionysos � ciel ouvert, Hachette, c1986, in the series Textes du XX siecle, under the direction of Maurice Olender.. Transl. by Arthur Goldhammer.
Prolegomena. 1 Epidemic, this god. 2 Inventing wine and distant parousiias. 3 The island of women. 4 The heart of Dionysos bared
'As the pertetual stranger Dionysos is the embodiment of strangeness. He is nowhere at home, and yet in another sense the world is his home. Marcel Detienne shrewdly presents Dionysos as the god of epiphanies, who can appear anywhere at any time and always as a stranger. It is the sudden apparition, sometimes brutal and sometimes beguiling, that underlies Detienne's treatment of this compelling and many-faceted god. Detienne evokes the manic activity of Dionysos--his leaping, bounding, running--in myths that connect him with the shedding of blood, the pouring of wine, the ejaculation of semen. This is the deity of murderous frenzy, leaping Maenad, effervescent wine, heart drunk with blood, which Detienne calls "all aspects of a single mode of action.
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