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This volume presents an essential but underestimated role that
Dionysus played in Greek and Roman political thought. Written by an
interdisciplinary team of scholars, the volume covers the period
from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire. The reader can
observe how ideas and political themes rooted in Greek classical
thought were continued, adapted and developed over the course of
history. The authors (including four leading experts in the field:
Cornelia Isler-Kerenyi, Jean-Marie Pailler, Richard Seaford
andRichard Stoneman) reconstruct the political significance of
Dionysus by examining different types of evidence: historiography,
poetry, coins, epigraphy, art and philosophy. They discuss the
place of the god in Greek city-state politics, explore the long
tradition of imitating Dionysus that ancient leaders, from
Alexander the Great to the Roman emperors, manifested in various
ways, and shows how the political role of Dionysus was reflected in
Orphism and Neoplatonist philosophy. Dionysus and Politics provides
an excellent introduction to a fundamental feature of ancient
political thought which until now has been largely neglected by
mainstream academia. The book will be an invaluable resource to
students and scholars interested in ancient politics and religion.
The book deals with martyrdom understood as a philosophical
category. The main question pertains to the evidential value of the
Christian witness through death. The author approaches an answer
through a philosophical interpretation of the belief in the
evidential role of martyrdom. Numerous historical documents confirm
that ancient martyrdom might have been considered as a kind of
proof also by people unaffiliated with the Church. The author
observes the theology and the reality of martyrdom through the
perspective of the ancient philosophy of death and radical personal
transformation. He believes that the Christian stance in the face
of persecutions could have been understood as the realization of
the unrealized ambitions of philosophy, thereby proving indirectly
the veracity of the teaching revealed by Jesus Christ.
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