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The triumph of Dionysos : convivial processions, from antiquity to the present day
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...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
: Archaeopress
, 2014
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| Online Access: | http://altertum.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/archaeopress/www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/emedium/fid/Archaeopress/9781905739738 - eBook.pdf |
| Author Notes: | John Boardman |
| E-Book Packages: | Archaeopress : Selected E-Books in Archaeology |
| Notes: | FID-Lizenz "FID Altertumswissenschaften" (keine Universitätslizenz) |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Zielgruppe - Audience: Specialized |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
| ISBN: | 9781905739738 |
