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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. Contents: I. The Dionysiac Procession in Early Greece; II. The Egypti an Connection: staging the Triumph; III. Dionysos and Alexander the Great in the East; IV. The Procession in Hellenistic and Roman Art and Life; V. The Oriental Succession; VI. The Renaissance; VII. The Modern World
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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. Contents: I. The Dionysiac Procession in Early Greece; II. The Egypti an Connection: staging the Triumph; III. Dionysos and Alexander the Great in the East; IV. The Procession in Hellenistic and Roman Art and Life; V. The Oriental Succession; VI. The Renaissance; VII. The Modern World
