Carl Kerenyi

Dionysos

Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. This work presents a historical account of the religion of Dionysos from its beginnings in the Minoan culture to its transition to a cosmic and cosmopolitan religion of late antiquity under the Roman Empire.

Produktdetails

• Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 606
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 924g
• ISBN-13: 9780691029153
• ISBN-10: 0691029156
• Artikelnr.: 20965841

Autorenporträt

Carl Kerényi Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
I
Minoan Visions
5
II
Light and Honey
29
III
The Cretan Core of the Dionysos Myth
52
IV
The Myths of Arrival
129
V
Dionysos Trieterikos, God of the Two-Year Period
189
VI
The Dionysos of the Athenians and of His Worshipers in the Greek
Mysteries
273
Abbreviations
391
List of Works Cited
393
Index
421
A Note on C. Kerenyi
445
A Bibliography of C. Kerenyi
447

Rezensionen

A monumental work by one of this century's leading students of ancient religion. . . . The book is lavishly produced. . . . Should remain a standard item for some time to come.