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

2014 - Archaeopress Publishing

80 p.

  • 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. [Publisher's text].
  • Highly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.