Dionysos carried the blessing of wine to the whole world, and his triumphant return from India became a popular subject for the arts of Greece and Rome in many media. It became associated with Alexander the Great’s comparable victories and later served as a message of immortality for any mortal prince. The iconography survived the ancient world into Renaissance and neo-Classical arts, and may even have contributed to the practices of modern circus parades with their wild animals, maenad-snake-charmers and clown-satyrs: an unusual, indeed unique, survival.
- ISBN13 9781905739738
- Publish Date 15 April 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Archaeopress
- Imprint Archaeopress Archaeology
- Format eBook
- Pages 80
- Language English
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