The pólis in ecstasy: Figurations of Dionysus in Antiquity
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Dionysus, Ancient Religion, Ancient History, Ancient PoetryAbstract
Considering the imagery of the Ancient Greeks around the god Dionysus during the archaic period, as his characterizations are contained in poems and ceramics of this period, we intend to review some of the transformations that this deity’s representations have known from their earliest records up to the classical period. Exploring an interface with history and the various socio-economic and political transformations of this same period of time, we will follow how Dionysus changed from a minor status – characteristic of marginalized deities, even in the Homeric poems, for example – to acquire the importance that highlights him as the main divinity of a major festival such as the Great Dionysia in Athens, during the fifth century. Let us look at the various ambiguities inherent in the myths of the god, seeking to suggest how the historical facts outlined here may have been thus reflected in the mythical figurations which the Hellenic peoples of that period proposed in their artistic works.References
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