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Dionysus and Rome - Religion and Literature (Hardcover)
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Dionysus and Rome - Religion and Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
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While most work on Dionysus is based on Greek sources, this
collection of essays examines the god's Roman and Italian
manifestations. Nine contributions address Bacchus' appearance at
the crossroads of Greek and Roman cultures, tracing continuities
and differences between literary and archaeological sources for the
god. The essays offer coverage of Dionysus in Roman art, Italian
epigraphy; Latin poetry including epic, drama and elegy; and prose,
including historiography, rhetorical and Christian discourse. The
introduction offers an overview of the presence of Dionysus in
Italy from the archaic to the imperial periods, identifying the
main scholarly trends, with treatment of key Dionysian episodes in
Roman history and literature. Individual chapters address the
reception of Euripides' Bacchae across Greek and Roman literature
from Athens to Byzantium; Dionysus in Roman art of the archaic and
Augustan periods; the god's relationship with Fufluns and Liber in
the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE; Dionysian associations; Bacchus in
Cicero; Ovid's Tristia 5.3; Bacchus in the writings of Christian
Latin writers. The collection sheds light on a relatively
understudied aspect of Dionysus, and will stimulate further
research in this area.
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