Reading Dionysus
Subtitle: Euripides' Bacchae and the cultural contestations of Greeks, Jews, Romans, and Christians
By: Courtney J.P. Friesen
Series: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum -- 95; Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum -- 95.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9783161538131
Subjects: Primitive and early church; Judaism; Bacchae (Euripides); Post-exilic period (Judaism); Church history; History
Notes: Ph. D. University of Minnesota 2013

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: Characterizing and uncharacteristic God; title: Tragic texts and contexts; title: Reading Euripdes' Bacchae : some meanings and effects; title: Textual sparagmo : receiving Euripides' Bacchae; title: Dionysus as a ptolemaic gentleman in Theocritus, Idyll 26; title: Philo's legatio ad gaium : imitating Dionysus and en(acting) tragedy; title: Bacchus as tragic hero and stoic sage in Horrace, epistles 1.16; title: Clement of Alexandria on pleasure and dying with Euripides' Bacchae.