Dionysos in classical Athens : an understanding through images / by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi ; translated by Anna Beerens.

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"Dionysos, with his following of satyrs and women, was a major theme in a big part of the figure painted pottery in 500-300 B.C. Athens. As an original testimonial of their time, the imagery on these vases convey what this god meant to his worshippers. It becomes clear that - contrary to what is usu...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 181.
Main Author: Isler-Kerényi, Cornelia (Author)
Other Authors: Beerens, Anna, 1957- (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
German
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Series:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 181.
Subjects:
Dionysus > (Greek deity)
Dionysus > (Greek deity) > Cult.
Dionysus > (Greek deity) > Art.
Vase-painting, Greek > Greece > Athens.
Vases, Red-figured > Greece > Athens.
Dionysos.
Dionysoskult.
Vasenmalerei.
Athen.
Cults.
Vase-painting, Greek.
Vases, Red-figured.
Greece > Athens.
Art.
Genre:
Art.
Physical Description:xx, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction. Dionysos in 6th-century imagery ; The retinue of Dionysos : Who are the satyrs, who are the women? ; Dionysos in the 5th century, and his transformation after 450 B.C.
  • [1] Dionysiac subjects in red-figure pottery
  • [2] Dionysos for Athens, Dionysos for all. Dionysiac pottery around 500 B.C. ; Late black-figure vases ; Early red-figure vases ; Red-figure cups of the final quarter of the 6th century
  • [3] All kinds of satyrs. The first decades of the 5th century ; The painters of large vases ; Painters of cups ; Tentative conclusions
  • [4] Dionysos, a god for the Athenians. Developments after 480 B.C. ; Hermonax and his contemporaries ; The imagery of red-figure pointed amphorae ; The pelikai of the painter of the birth of Athena
  • [5] Dionysiac mythology in flux. Vase imagery between 480 and 430 B.C. ; Traditional Dionysiac subjects ; The child Dionysos ; Dionysos in love
  • [6] Unfamiliar and unknown Dionysiac rituals. Boys and girls in the realm of Dionysos ; A domestic Dionysiac ritual ; Dionysos' chair. 1) A satyr carrying a chair ; 2) The unoccupied chair ; 3) Dionysos has arrived ; Child satyrs in Dionysos' retinue ; A ritually honored Etruscan Dionysos
  • [7] A new Dionysos at the Parthenon. Decoration program and message ; Dionysos' gigantomachy ; Dionysos in the east pediment ; Dionysos in the Parthenon frieze ; Reflections of the west pediment in vase painting
  • [8] The new Dionysos in vase painting
  • [9] Images of Dionysos from 430 B.C. onwards. Dionysos on stage. 1) Kratinos' Dionysalexandros, 2) Aristophanes' frogs, 3) Euripides' bacchae ; Dionysos in 4th-century sculpture ; A look at vase painting ; The Derveni krater
  • [10] Summing up. Anonymous prototypes ; The changing image of Dionysos ; Dionysos in classical Athens
  • Works cited
  • Index. 1) Museums ; 2) Vases following Beazley ; 3) Vases following Beazley archive database (BA) ; 4) Vases and other works following LIMC ; General.