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Author | : Courtney J.P. Friesen |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2015-07-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783161538131 |
Courtney J. P. Friesen explores shifting boundaries of ancient religions by way of the reception of a popular tragedy, Euripides' Bacchae. As a play staging political crises provoked by the arrival of the foreign god Dionysus and his ecstatic cult, audiences and readers found resonances with their own cultural moments. This dramatic deity became emblematic of exuberant and liberating spirituality and, at the same time, a symbol of imperial conquest. Thus, readings of the Bacchae frequently foreground conflicts between religious autonomy and political authority, and between ethnic diversity and social cohesion. This cross-disciplinary study traces appropriations and evocations of this drama ranging from the fifth century BCE through Byzantium not only among pagans but also Jews and Christians. Writers variously articulated their religious visions over against Dionysus, often while paradoxically adopting the god's language and symbols. Consequently, imitation and emulati on are at times indistinguishable from polemics and subversion.
Author | : Walter F. Otto |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780253208910 |
"This study of Dionysus . . . is also a new theogony of Early Greece." —Publishers Weekly "An original analysis . . . of the spiritual significance of the Greek myth and cult of Dionysus." —Theology Digest
Author | : James I. Porter |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780804737005 |
This book argues that The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche's first book, does not mark a rupture with his prior philosophical undertakings but is, in fact, continuous with them and with his later writings as well. It shows that many of the book's elements are reminiscent of Nietzsche's earlier revisions of philology and anticipate the later writings.
Author | : Leo Strauss |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2008-03-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 022622547X |
In one of his last books, Socrates and Aristophanes, Leo Strauss's examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looking at eleven plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is essentially one between poetry and philosophy, and that poetry emerges as an autonomous wisdom capable of rivaling philosophy. "Strauss gives us an impressive addition to his life's work—the recovery of the Great Tradition in political philosophy. The problem the book proposes centers formally upon Socrates. As is typical of Strauss, he raises profound issues with great courage. . . . [He addresses] a problem that has been inherent in Western life ever since [Socrates'] execution: the tension between reason and religion. . . . Thus, we come to Aristophanes, the great comic poet, and his attack on Socrates in the play The Clouds. . . [Strauss] translates it into the basic problem of the relation between poetry and philosophy, and resolves this by an analysis of the function of comedy in the life of the city." —Stanley Parry, National Review
Author | : William Levitan |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 817 |
Release | : 2022-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472038966 |
The first English verse translation of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis
Author | : Susan Rowland |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2016-07-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317209621 |
Dionysus, god of dismemberment and sponsor of the lost or abandoned feminine, originates both Jungian psychology and literature in Remembering Dionysus. Characterized by spontaneity, fluid boundaries, sexuality, embodiment, wild nature, ecstasy and chaos, Dionysus is invoked in the writing of C. G. Jung and James Hillman as the dual necessity to adopt and dismiss literature for their archetypal vision of the psyche or soul. Susan Rowland describes an emerging paradigm for the twenty-first century enacting the myth of a god torn apart to be re-membered, and remembered as reborn in a great renewal of life. Rowland demonstrates how persons, forms of knowing and even eras that dismiss Dionysus are torn apart, and explores how Jung was Dionysian in providing his most dismembered text, The Red Book. Remembering Dionysus pursues the rough god into the Sublime in the destruction of meaning in Jung and Jacques Lacan, to a re-membering of sublime feminine creativity that offers zoe, or rebirth participating in an archetype of instinctual life. This god demands to be honoured inside our knowing and being, just as he (re)joins us to wild nature. This revealing book will be invigorating reading for Jungian analysts, psychotherapists, arts therapists and counsellors, as well as academics and students of analytical psychology, depth psychology, Jungian and post-Jungian studies, literary studies and ecological humanities.
Author | : Rafael López-Pedraza |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
The internationally renowned Jungian analyst Lopez-Pedraza diagnoses the psychological illness at the core of modern society--the loss of embodied soulfulness in people's lives. In this study of the Greek god Dionysus, he offers insight for a cure. This book may be worth several years in psychotherapy, if one takes its message to heart. Dismemberment and cannibalism, Prometheus and Titanic nature, mystical experience, the communal aspect of Dionysiac worship, jazz, flamenco, and bullfighting are among the many twists and turns taken in this essay that wends its way through issues of the body and emotion to open hidden doors for psychotherapy and to cast new light on post-modern humanity.
Author | : Baby Professor |
Publisher | : Speedy Publishing LLC |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2017-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1541923804 |
The story of Dionysus was an interesting one. He was a survivor that’s why he was the god of grape harvest, wine and winemaking, theatre, ritual madness, fertility and religious ecstasy. When reading about Greek mythology, pay special attention to the cultures and traditions used as background of the stories. Myths are a special way of learning the practices of an ancient society. Read today!
Author | : Edward Hyams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Viticulture |
ISBN | : |
Publisher description -- This is the story of a sacred plant, Vitis vinifera, the grape-vine, from its pre-historic origins in western Asia to its spectacular expansion north, east, and west, and its final conquest of the world with the planting of vines in the southern hemisphere in the last century. The vine has been a symbol of both pagan and Christian deities from earliest times; indeed its history is so interwoven with the history of religion that god and vine are sometimes scarcely to be distinguished. The author describes how the vine has been cultivated, what sorts of wines have been drunk, how they were made and taxed, and how they have affected people's lives. It is the account of a single plant species through the eighty centuries of its association with man.
Author | : Scott Simons |
Publisher | : Silver Press |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1991-06-01 |
Genre | : Dionysus (Greek deity) |
ISBN | : 9780671691257 |
Kidnapped by pirates, young Dionysus turns his cold-hearted captors into friendly dolphins.