Drunken Silenus

by Morgan Meis

Book Overview

The Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down--an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism. Morgan Meis begins simply enough, with a painting by the Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens of the figure from Greek mythology who is mentor to Dionysus, god of wine and excess of every kind. We learn who this obscure, minor god is--why he must attend on the god who dies and must be re-born...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163982054X
• ISBN13: 9781639820542
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Slant Books
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"