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Dionysus and Politics: Constructing Authority in the Graeco-Roman World

Dionysus and Politics: Constructing Authority in the Graeco-Roman World

Doroszewski, Filip
Karlowicz, Dariusz

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Religion General Ancient History GeneralGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0367480360
ISBN13: 9780367480363
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 31 2021
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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-Kerényi, 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.

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