Dionysus: Myth and Cult

Dionysus: Myth and Cult

Dionysus (Greek deity)
Cults -- Greece
Mythology, Greek

Walter F. Otto

Bloomington, Indiana University Press

Translated with an introduction by Robert B. Palmer

Part I : Myth and cultus -- Part II : Dionysus -- The birthplace of cult of Dionysus -- The son of Zeus and Semele -- The myths of his epiphany -- The god who comes -- The symbol of the mask -- Pandemonium and silence -- The world bewitched -- The somber madness -- Modern theories -- The mad god -- The vine -- Dionysus revealed in vegetative nature -- Dionysus and the elements of moisture -- Dionysus and the women -- Ariadne -- The fate of Dionysus -- Dionysus and Apollos -- Concluding remarks on tragedy.

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