Dionysus and Politics (eBook, PDF)

Constructing Authority in the Graeco-Roman World
Redaktion: Doroszewski, Filip; Karlowicz, Dariusz

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000392418
• Artikelnr.: 61429795

Autorenporträt

Filip Doroszewski is Assistant Professor at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland. His recent publications include a co-edited volume Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III (2021) and a monograph Orgies of Words. Mystery Terminology in the Paraphrase of St. John's Gospel by Nonnus of Panopolis (forthcoming). Dariusz Kar¿owicz is a Polish philosopher and a lecturer at Warsaw University, Poland. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the philosophical magazine 'Political Theology'. His books in English include The Archparadox of Death: Martyrdom as a Philosophical Category (2016) and Socrates and Other Saints (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction, Filip Doroszewski, Dariusz Kar
owicz; Part I Dionysus and the Polis; 1. Dionysos, the Polis and Power, Cornelia Isler-Kerényi; 2. The Politics of Euripides' Bacchae and the Preconception of Irresolveable Contradiction, Richard Seaford; 3. On the Necessity of Dionysus: the Return of Hephaestus as a Tale of the God that Alone Can Solve Unresolvable Conflicts and Restore an Inconsistent Whole, Dariusz Kar
owicz; 4. Alexander and Dionysus, Richard Stoneman; Part II Dionysus in Rome; 5. Dionysos against Rome? The Bacchanalian Affair: a Matter of Power(s), Jean-Marie Pailler; 6. Augustus and the Neoi Dionysoi, Fiachra Mac Góráin; 7. The State as Crater: Dionysus and Politics in Plutarch's Lives of Crassus, Antony and Caesar, Filip Doroszewski; 8. Dionysus and Legitimisation of Imperial Authority by Myth in First- and Second-Century Rome: Caligula, Domitian and Hadrian, S
awomir Poloczek; 9. The Role of Bacchus/Liber Pater in the Severan Religious Policy: the Numismatic and Epigraphic Evidence, Mägorzata Krawczyk; Part III Late-Antique Reflection on Dionysus; 10. The Rule of Dionysus in the Light of the Orphic Theogony (Hieroi Logoi in 24 Rhapsodies), Marek Job; 11. Dionysus in the Mirror of Late Antiquity: Religion, Philosophy and Politics, David Hernández de la Fuente; Index