Dionysus in Arcadia
Author | : J. Michael Walton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Dionysus (Greek deity) in literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : J. Michael Walton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Dionysus (Greek deity) in literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Amaru Pinkham |
Publisher | : Adventures Unlimited Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781931882286 |
Presenting the ancient Holy Grail lineage from Asia and how the Knights Templar were initiated into it, this book reveals how ancient Asian wisdom became the foundation for the Holy Grail legend.
Author | : Samantha Devin |
Publisher | : Aristeia Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2020-07-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781913209131 |
Arcadia is the entrance to the awe-inspiring and terrifying realm of Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstasy, the Eleusinian Mysteries and Death. Julia, a solitary writer, disenchanted with life, discovers a pagan world on a side-street theatre of London's West End, a world packed with riddles and oracles ruled by the irresistible sensuality of a living god. A murder and a cryptic telephone call lead her to Daniel, the incarnation of the god Dionysus. Allured by his fascinating and indomitable personality Julia is placed on a stage of mythological magnitude enthused by desire, the power of tragedy and the invigorating impulse of the heroic. To stay in Arcadia Julia will have to face an enticing and ominous truth: Only those who are willing to break free and trespass the forbidden territory of the gods can defeat death. "When a god breaks into our lives and fills us with a desire to penetrate and be penetrated by the Ineffable, life becomes an adventure. In the face of death's inexorable triumph, the gods offer us a pact of mutual fascination. Only heroes can feel the power of their lucid gaze." "In Arcadia Samantha Devin succeeds in resurrecting myths we thought forgotten. It is a powerful, invigorating novel driven by the energy of philosophical thought." JAVIER SIERRA. Samantha Devin is the author of Black Bile and Heroica. Her novels have been translated into English and German.
Author | : Walter Burkert |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780520058750 |
"A milestone, not only in the field of classics but in the wider field of the history of religion. . . . It will find a place alongside the works of Jane Ellen Harrison, Sir James George Frazer, Claude Levi-Strauss, and van Gennep."—Wendy Flaherty, Divinity School, University of Chicago "This book is a professional classic, an absolute must for any serious student of Greek religion."—Albert Henrichs, Harvard University
Author | : David D. Leitao |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2012-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107017289 |
This book traces the image of the pregnant male as it evolves in classical Greek literature. Originating as a representation of paternity and, by extension, "authorship" of creative works, the image later comes to function also as a means to explore the boundary between the sexes.
Author | : Eleni Marantou |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2024-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1803277726 |
This book traces the origins of the religious system of the Peloponnese to identify the factors behind its subsequent development from the Geometric to the Classical period. Through a presentation of cult places, the deities worshipped, and the epithets used, the book explores preferences for particular deities and the reasons for this.
Author | : Dennis R. MacDonald |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2017-04-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1506421660 |
“Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.” Dennis R. MacDonald offers a provocative explanation of those scandalous words of Christ from the Fourth Gospel—an explanation that he argues would hardly have surprised some of the Gospel’s early readers. John sounds themes that would have instantly been recognized as proper to the Greek god Dionysos (the Roman Bacchus), not least as he was depicted in Euripides’s play The Bacchae. A divine figure, the offspring of a divine father and human mother, takes on flesh to live among mortals, but is rejected by his own. He miraculously provides wine and offers it as a sacred gift to his devotees, women prominent among them, dies a violent death—and returns to life. Yet John takes his drama in a dramatically different direction: while Euripides’s Dionysos exacts vengeance on the Theban throne, the Johannine Christ offers life to his followers. MacDonald employs mimesis criticism to argue that the earliest Evangelist not only imitated Euripides but expected his readers to recognize Jesus as greater than Dionysos.
Author | : James George Frazer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Magic |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir James George Frazer |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 6687 |
Release | : 1957-01-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1465538461 |
For some time I have been preparing a general work on primitive superstition and religion. Among the problems which had attracted my attention was the hitherto unexplained rule of the Arician priesthood; and last spring it happened that in the course of my reading I came across some facts which, combined with others I had noted before, suggested an explanation of the rule in question. As the explanation, if correct, promised to throw light on some obscure features of primitive religion, I resolved to develop it fully, and, detaching it from my general work, to issue it as a separate study. This book is the result. Now that the theory, which necessarily presented itself to me at first in outline, has been worked out in detail, I cannot but feel that in some places I may have pushed it too far. If this should prove to have been the case, I will readily acknowledge and retract my error as soon as it is brought home to me. Meantime my essay may serve its purpose as a first attempt to solve a difficult problem, and to bring a variety of scattered facts into some sort of order and system. A justification is perhaps needed of the length at which I have dwelt upon the popular festivals observed by European peasants in spring, at midsummer, and at harvest. It can hardly be too often repeated, since it is not yet generally recognised, that in spite of their fragmentary character the popular superstitions and customs of the peasantry are by far the fullest and most trustworthy evidence we possess as to the primitive religion of the Aryans. Indeed the primitive Aryan, in all that regards his mental fibre and texture, is not extinct. He is amongst us to this day. The great intellectual and moral forces which have revolutionised the educated world have scarcely affected the peasant. In his inmost beliefs he is what his forefathers were in the days when forest trees still grew and squirrels played on the ground where Rome and London now stand.
Author | : James George Frazer |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2020-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752390182 |
Reproduction of the original: The Golden Bough by James George Frazer