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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Dionysos"”.
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The Washington Bronze Dionysos
… to identity the figure as representing the god Dionysos. The sculptor drew upon earlier prototypes, specifically a figure called the Westmacott athlete, which has been tentatively attributed to the Greek sculptor Polykleitos. The head of the statue reflects a different, possibly female, …
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Ancient Greek Maenads: Comparing Mythological Worshippers of Dionysos to Reality
… examines the introduction of a new deity, Dionysos, to the well-established religion of the ancient Greek world. In this world, Dionysos leads and commands a group of female devotees—the maenads. These women make up both the chorus in the play and the rest of the female Theban population …
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The Power of Space: The Acropolis, the Theatre of Dionysos, and Tragedy in the 5th Century BCE
… effects of the shared space of the Theatre of Dionysos and the Acropolis during tragic performances in Athens during the 5th century BCE. The theatre's location on the south slope of the Acropolis allowed the Acropolis' depiction of Athenian power, I argue, to speak to audience members as they …
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Ambivalence and penetration of boundaries in the worship of Dionysos: Analysing the enacting of psychical conflicts in religious ritual and myth, with reference to societal structure
… in Totem and Taboo via an engagement with the Dionysos myth and cult scholarship allows for a new understanding of dominant forms of hegemonic psychic and social formations that attempt to keep in place a false opposition of polis and phusis, self and Other, resulting in the perpetuation of …
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The Evocation of Cult in Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painting
… black-figure vase-painting. Three gods, Apollo, Dionysos, and Poseidon, were analysed with the aim of ascertaining to what extent and in what ways the cults of the archaic period may have influenced the vase-painters and their construction of the deities. The vases were obtained mostly from the …
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Essai de mythanalyse de l'imaginaire québécois au XXe siècle (1916-1945) à partir de textes romanesques représentatifs
… présence d'une figure mythique--en l'occurrence Dionysos-- mais également les traces d'un concept habituellement utilisé dans le domaine des études religieuses, celui de sacré. Il appert que durant la première moitié du XX e siècle, au Québec, le rapport qu'entretiennent les cultures savante et …
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Action, alienation and Bacchus
… for an immersion into the sensuous world of Dionysos. The stoa defined the space and established an experience where a Dionysian immersion was mediated by Apollonian determination and order. By reviving the function of the stoa in the contemporary city, much can be done to ameliorate the …
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Auf den Spuren der griechischen Mythen bei Anton Čechov in den Werken der frühen Schaffensperiode
… Die antiken Gottheiten und Helden wie Apollo, Dionysos, Pythia, Narziss werden in Čechovs wenig untersuchtem Frühwerk zu Menschen des Alltags. Diese Projektion ist eine parodie- und travestiehafte Modifikation der mythischen Elementarstrukturen. In dieser Verschmelzung des Mythischen mit dem …
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Kindsmord und Wahnsinn : Untersuchungen zur Überlieferung mordender Eltern in der Antike
… so daß diese ihre eigenen Kinder töten: Dionysos und Hera. Während sich die dionysischen Mythen um die Anerkennung des Gottes und seines Kultes drehen, rächt sich Hera auf diese Weise an den unehelichen Kindern ihres Göttergatten Zeus. Zusammenfassend hat sich gezeigt, daß die Mythen, die …