Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life

by Karl Kerényi and Carl Kerényi

Book Overview

No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and ritual representation, the Greeks possessed a complete expression of indestructible life, the essence of Dionysos. In this work, the noted mythologist and historian of religion Carl Ker nyi presents a historical account of the religion of Dionysos from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691029156
• ISBN13: 9780691029153
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 7.9"