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The Triumph of Dionysos: Convivial processions, from antiquity to the present day
John Boardman
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Paperback. Dionysos carried the blessing of wine to the whole world, and his triumphant return from India became a popular subject for the arts of Greece and Rome in many media. It became associated with Alexander the Great s comparable victories and later served as a message of immortality for any mortal prince." Num Pages: 80 pages, Highly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. BIC Classification: HBLA1; HDDK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 245 x 177 x 5. Weight in Grams: 202.
Dionysos carried the blessing of wine to the whole world, and his triumphant return from India became a popular subject for the arts of Greece and Rome in many media. It became associated with Alexander the Great’s comparable victories and later served as a message of immortality for any mortal prince. The iconography survived the ancient world into Renaissance and neo-Classical arts, and may even have contributed to the practices of modern circus parades with their wild animals, maenad-snake-charmers and clown-satyrs: an unusual, indeed unique, survival.
Dionysos carried the blessing of wine to the whole world, and his triumphant return from India became a popular subject for the arts of Greece and Rome in many media. It became associated with Alexander the Great’s comparable victories and later served as a message of immortality for any mortal prince. The iconography survived the ancient world into Renaissance and neo-Classical arts, and may even have contributed to the practices of modern circus parades with their wild animals, maenad-snake-charmers and clown-satyrs: an unusual, indeed unique, survival.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Archaeopress Archaeology
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905739707
SKU
V9781905739707
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