Dionysiac poetics and Euripides' Bacchae
Includes afterword (p.349-393) by the author: Dionysus and the Bacchae in the light of recent scholarship
Print Book, English, ©1997
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Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, ©1997
Tragedies
xviii, 420 pages ; 23 cm
9780691015972, 069101597X
1001189873
1. The Elusive God
2. Forms of Dionysus: Doubling, Hunting, Rituals
3. Dionysus and Civilization: Tools, Agriculture, Music
4. The Horizontal Axis: House, City, Mountain
5. The Vertical Axis: Earth, Air, Water, Fire
6. Arms and the Man: Sex Roles and Rites of Passage
7. Metatragedy: Art, Illusion, Imitation
8. The Crisis of Symbols: Language, Myth, Tragedy
9. Dionysiac Poetics and Euripidean Tragedy