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The Triumph of Dionysos: Convivial Processions, from Antiquity to the Present Day

Name: The Triumph of Dionysos: Convivial Processions, from Antiquity to the Present Day
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ISBN: 9781905739707

John Boardman

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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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2014

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Archaeopress

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English

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9781905739707