This collection of essays offers a rounded examination of the Roman and Italian manifestations of Dionysus. Nine essays address Bacchus at the crossroads of Greek and Roman, combining diverse sources that include art, epigraphy,...
moreThis collection of essays offers a rounded examination of the Roman and Italian manifestations of Dionysus. Nine essays address Bacchus at the crossroads of Greek and Roman, combining diverse sources that include art, epigraphy, historiography, poetry, and rhetorical and Christian discourse. The collection emphasizes local inflections in Italian responses to (and appropriations of) Bacchus, and the intersection of Bacchus and Roman politics and society.
Contents
Preface V
List of illustrations IX
List of contributors XI
Fiachra Mac Góráin
Introduction. Dionysus in Rome: accommodation and resistance 1
Simon Perris and Fiachra Mac Góráin
The ancient reception of Euripides’ Bacchae from Athens to Byzantium 39
Stéphanie Wyler
Images of Dionysus in Rome: the archaic and Augustan periods 85
Daniele Miano
Liber, Fufluns and the others: rethinking Dionysus in Italy between the fifth and the third centuries BCE 111
Julietta Steinhauer
Dionysian associations and the Bacchanalian affair 133
Gesine Manuwald
Dionysus / Bacchus / Liber in Cicero 157
John F. Miller
Bacchus and the exiled Ovid (Tristia 5.3) 177
Alessandro Schiesaro
Alius furor. Statius’ Thebaid and the metamorphoses of Bacchus 193
Francesco Massa
The shadow of Bacchus: Liber and Dionysus in Christian Latin literature (2nd–4th centuries) 219
Index rerum et nominum 239
Index locorum 245
Index of inscriptions and visual artefacts 247
