Reading Dionysus : Euripides' Bacchae and the Cultural Contestations of Greeks, Jews, Romans, and Christians
Courtney J. P. Friesen
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Tübingen : : Mohr Siebeck, , 2015.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (344 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Preface; Table of Contents; Note on Abbreviations and Translations; Introduction; Part I - Preliminaries: Themes and Trajectories; Chapter 1 - Characterizing an Uncharacteristic God; 1.1 Maenadism and Other Forms of Madness; 1.2 Liberation in Life and Death; 1.3 Religious Violence and Imperial Conquest; 1.4 Dionysus between Religious Liberty and Political Authority in Alexandria and Rome; 1.5 Dionysus and the Jews: Conflicts and Conflations; 1.6 Dionysus and the Christians: Sharing Sacred Wine; 1.7 Conclusions; Chapter 2 - Tragic Texts and Contexts; 2.1 The Theater and Its God. - 2.2 Tragedy as Political Discourse from Polis to Empire2.3 The Theater among Jews and Christians: Patterns of Resistance and Ambivalence; 2.4 Tragic Imitations: Jewish and Christian Experiments with Exodus and Passion; 2.5 Conclusions; Chapter 3 - Reading Euripides' Bacchae: Some Meanings and Effects; 3.1 The Bacchae as Metatragedy: Theorizing a Stranger's Identity; 3.1.1 A Divine Disguise; 3.1.2 Pentheus as Spectator; 3.2 Religious Reversals: Problematizing Myth and Ritual; 3.2.1 Dionysiac Lusis; 3.2.2 The Divine Madness of Maenads and Prophets; 3.2.3 Violence and Sacrifice. - 3.3 Foreign as Indigenous: Introducing "New" Gods and Constructing Others3.4 Conclusions; Chapter 4 - Textual Sparagmoi: Receiving Euripides' Bacchae; 4.1 Reception and Dialogues of Difference; 4.2 Receiving Euripides: Cultural and Ideological Factors; 4.3 The Bacchae's Ancient Audience; 4.4 Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Reception; 4.5 Conclusions; Part II - Identifying with Dionysus: Effects of Imperial Self-Representation; Chapter 5 - Dionysus as a Ptolemaic Gentleman in Theocritus, Idyll 26; 5.1 Ptolemy II Philadelphus: Patron of Dionysus and the Theater. - 5.2 Theocritus: The Poet and His Patron5.3 Idyll 26: Euripides' Bacchae Revisited or Revised?; 5.4 Theocritean Maenads as Imperial Subjects; 5.5 Conclusions; Chapter 6 - Philo's Legatio ad Gaium: Imitating Dionysus and (En)acting Tragedy; 6.1 Being Jewish and Greek in Roman Alexandria; 6.2 Dionysus: A Benevolent or Vindictive God?; 6.3 Gaius as Tragic Actor; 6.4 Conclusions; Part III - Resisting Death: Ambivalence and Afterlife; Chapter 7 - Bacchus as Tragic Hero and Stoic Sage in Horace, Epistles 1.16; 7.1 Dionysus at Rome; 7.2 Euripides' Bacchae on the Roman Stage and in Imperial Epic. - 7.3 Horace: The Poet, the Emperor, and Bacchus7.4 Horace's Epistles Book 1: Beyond Rome; 7.5 From Cithaeron to Sabine Estate: Changing Dramatic Identities in Epistles 1.16; 7.6 The Bacchae and Ritual Death from the Gold Tablets to Plutarch and Epictetus; 7.7 Conclusions; Chapter 8 - Clement of Alexandria on Pleasure and Dying with Euripides' Bacchae; 8.1 Clement and the Appropriation of Paideia; 8.2 Dangerous Pleasures: Poetry and Dionysus; 8.3 Christ as Dionysiac Mystagogue in Stromateis 4; 8.4 Conclusions; Part IV - Staging Deliverance: Dionysiac Escape and Divine Vindication. - Chapter 9 - Eluding the Tyrant in Artapanus' Moses Fragment and Euripides' Bacchae
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| ISBN | 9783161538131
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