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THE TRIUMPH OF DIONYSOS
CONVIVIAL PROCESSIONS, FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT DAY |
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John Boardman |
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ISBN 10: |
1905739702 |
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9781905739707 |
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ARCHAEOPRESS |
Pub. date: |
15 April, 2014 |
Pages: |
80 |
Description: |
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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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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Highly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white |
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UK |
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Archaeopress |
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