Tra la vigna e la croce
Dioniso nei discorsi letterari e figurativi cristiani (II–IV secolo)
By (author) Francesco Massa Foreword by Nicole Belayche
Paperback (Published)
(March 2014)
ISBN: 9783515106313
6.69 x 9.49 inches
Price: $110.00
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Il volume analizza la presenza di Dioniso nelle fonti letterarie e iconografiche cristiane, tra II e IV secolo, con lo scopo di comprendere il ruolo giocato dal dio greco nella formazione dell’identita cristiana. L’incontro tra le tradizioni dionisiache e le fonti cristiane e collocato nella prospettiva di studi che rimuove il cristianesimo dalla sua separatezza e diversita teologica per ricollocarlo nelle complesse dinamiche religiose dei primi secoli d.C., come una componente del panorama religioso dell’Impero romano. Situandosi nell’ambito degli studi sulle competizioni e sulle coabitazioni religiose dell’eta imperiale, la ricerca si sviluppa intorno a tre strategie adottate dai cristiani nei confronti di Dioniso e del suo mondo: il riconoscimento e la negazione delle analogie tra il dio greco e Cristo, la ripresa di parole e immagini dionisiache per la ricostruzione del linguaggio letterario e iconografico cristiano, le interpretazioni e mediazioni culturali cristiane di tematiche dionisiache. — The analysis of the role of Dionysus in the process of forming an Christian identity during the imperial ages (2nd-4th century) is at the center of this study. Its main purpose is that of understanding the part that Dionysian traditions played in the encounter of Christianity and the religions of the Greek and Roman worlds. With this analysis three operative models have been identified: 1. the recognition and negation of the analogies between Dionysus and Christ; 2. the trace of Dionysian words and images; 3. the Christian interpretation of Dionysian topics. This scheme shows the complexity inherent to the cohabitations and to the religious contacts of the imperial time. With the analysis of some important authors of Christian literature and of distinct figurative documents, this book finds, on the one hand, the aspects which enabled the Christian reconfiguration of the Dionysian elements and, on the other hand, the modalities of neutralization of the Dionysian images and vocabulary.
Il volume analizza la presenza di Dioniso nelle fonti letterarie e iconografiche cristiane, tra II e IV secolo, con lo scopo di comprendere il ruolo giocato dal dio greco nella formazione dell’identita cristiana. L’incontro tra le tradizioni dionisiache e le fonti cristiane e collocato nella prospettiva di studi che rimuove il cristianesimo dalla sua separatezza e diversita teologica per ricollocarlo nelle complesse dinamiche religiose dei primi secoli d.C., come una componente del panorama religioso dell’Impero romano. Situandosi nell’ambito degli studi sulle competizioni e sulle coabitazioni religiose dell’eta imperiale, la ricerca si sviluppa intorno a tre strategie adottate dai cristiani nei confronti di Dioniso e del suo mondo: il riconoscimento e la negazione delle analogie tra il dio greco e Cristo, la ripresa di parole e immagini dionisiache per la ricostruzione del linguaggio letterario e iconografico cristiano, le interpretazioni e mediazioni culturali cristiane di tematiche dionisiache. — The analysis of the role of Dionysus in the process of forming an Christian identity during the imperial ages (2nd-4th century) is at the center of this study. Its main purpose is that of understanding the part that Dionysian traditions played in the encounter of Christianity and the religions of the Greek and Roman worlds. With this analysis three operative models have been identified: 1. the recognition and negation of the analogies between Dionysus and Christ; 2. the trace of Dionysian words and images; 3. the Christian interpretation of Dionysian topics. This scheme shows the complexity inherent to the cohabitations and to the religious contacts of the imperial time. With the analysis of some important authors of Christian literature and of distinct figurative documents, this book finds, on the one hand, the aspects which enabled the Christian reconfiguration of the Dionysian elements and, on the other hand, the modalities of neutralization of the Dionysian images and vocabulary.
- By (author) Francesco Massa
- Foreword by Nicole Belayche
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Décrire et comprendre le sacrifice
Les réflexions des Romains sur leur propre religion à partir de la littérature antiquaire
Burial Rituals, Ideas of Afterlife, and the Individual in the Hellenistic World and the Roman Empire
Kultraume im romischen Alltag
Das Isisbuch des Apuleius und der Ort von Religion im kaiserzeitlichen Rom
Volume 2
Gespräche mit Göttern
Die poetologische Funktion kommunikativer Kultbilder bei Horaz, Tibull und Properz
Göttliche Kinder
Ikonographische Untersuchung zu den Darstellungskonzeptionen von Gott und Kind bzw. Gott und Mensch in der griechischen Kunst
Aspects of Roman Dance Culture
Religious Cults, Theatrical Entertainments, Metaphorical Appropriations
Zur literarischen Fiktion von Kindheit
Überlegungen zu den apokryphen Kindheitsevangelien Jesu im Rahmen der antiken Biographie
Drum bietet zum Bunde die Hände
Rechtssymbolische Akte in zwischenstaatlichen Beziehungen im orientalischen und griechisch-römischen Altertum
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