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The Triumph of Dionysos: Convivial processions, from antiquity to the present day

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Date: 6 Oct 2023 05:33:21
The Triumph of Dionysos: Convivial processions, from antiquity to the present day

John Boardman, "The Triumph of Dionysos: Convivial processions, from antiquity to the present day"
English | ISBN: 1905739702 | 2014 | 80 pages | PDF | 22 MB

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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