Dionysos In Archaic Greece by Karl Kerényi
A concise, scholarly study that traces the origins and development of the Dionysian cult in archaic Greece, analyzing myths, rites, and images to show how an ambivalent deity—associated with wine, ecstatic frenzy, theater, fertility, and chthonic powers—embodied themes of transgression, death-and-rebirth, and seasonal renewal; drawing on literary and archaeological evidence, it reconstructs the socioreligious functions of maenadic rituals, processions, mystery-initiation practices, and iconography to explain how this complex cult shaped Greek religious imagination in the centuries before the classical age.
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