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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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Preface ;
THE DIONYSIAC PROCESSION IN EARLY GREECE ;
THE EGYPTIAN CONNECTION: STAGING THE TRIUMPH ;
DIONYSOS AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN THE EAST ;
THE PROCESSION IN HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN ART AND LIFE ;
THE ORIENTAL SUCCESSION ;
THE RENAISSANCE ;
THE MODERN WORLD

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      Publisher: Archaeopress
      Publication Date: 15/04/2014
      ISBN13: 9781905739707, 978-1905739707
      ISBN10: 1905739702
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Preface ;
      THE DIONYSIAC PROCESSION IN EARLY GREECE ;
      THE EGYPTIAN CONNECTION: STAGING THE TRIUMPH ;
      DIONYSOS AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN THE EAST ;
      THE PROCESSION IN HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN ART AND LIFE ;
      THE ORIENTAL SUCCESSION ;
      THE RENAISSANCE ;
      THE MODERN WORLD

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