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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.
Nonnus' Paraphrasis, an epic rendition of the Fourth Gospel, offers
a highly sophisticated interpretation of the Johannine text. An
essential means to this end is extensive use of the imagery related
to Greek, and especially Dionysiac, mysteries. Doroszewski
successfully challenges the once predominant view that the mystery
terminology in the poem is nothing more than rhetorical ornament.
He convincingly argues for an important exegetical role Nonnus
gives to the mystery terms. On the one hand, they refer to the
Mystery of Christ. Jesus introduces his followers into the new
dimension of life and worship that enables them to commune with
God. This is portrayed as falling into Bacchic frenzy and being
initiated into secret rites. On the other hand, the terminology has
a polemical function, too, as Nonnus uses it to present the Judaic
cult as bearing the hallmarks of pagan mysteries. As the book
discusses the Paraphrasis against the background of the mystery
metaphor development in antiquity, it serves as an excellent
introduction to this key feature of the ancient mentality and will
appeal to all interested in the culture of Imperial times,
especially in Early Christianity, Patristics, Neoplatonism and Late
Antique poetry.
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