"This study of Dionysus ...is also a new theogony of Early Greece." - "Publishers Weekly". "An original analysis ...of the spiritual significance of the Greek myth and cult of Dionysus". - "Theology Digest". Who is Dionysus? The god of ecstasy and terror, of wildness and of the most blessed deliverance, and the mad god whose appearance sends mankind into madness. In this classic study of the myth and cult of Dionysus, Walter F. Otto recreates the theological world of ancient Greek religion. Otto's provocative starting point is to accept the immanent reality of the gods. To understand the cult of Dionysus, it is necessary to reimagine the original vision of the god. Otto challenges us to understand the power of this vision not as a bloodless abstraction but as a force animating belief, to see the myth and art of Dionysus as a passionate search to regain the power of the lost god.

Dionysus: Myth and Cult

Otto, Walter F.

Religion & Spirituality

Indiana University Press

"This study of Dionysus... is also a new theogony of Early Greece." ―Publishers Weekly
"An original analysis... of the spiritual significance of the Greek myth and cult of Dionysus." ―Theology Digest

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 1st PB Edition, Thames and Hudson 1979. Thick Royal 8vo. vii + 310pp. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, small discreet inscription, no further marks of any kind. In very good laminated paperback with one very gentle crease to upper. 'A moving, scholarly and philosophical approach. I do not think that we shall ever look at a Greek statue or a vase painting with quite the same eye after reading it, for that eye will have been opened and will perceive what the artist really meant, what the vision was bneath the archaic smile.' Cyril Connolly, Sunday Times.

Homeric Gods: The Spiritual Significance of Greek Religion. Tr from German by Moses Hadas. Reprint of the 1954 Ed

THAMES HUDSON LTD

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Springer

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In this brief and convincing text, German philologist Walter F. Otto rescues Greek religion. He portrays it not as a consequence of primitive illusion, of man's irrationality, of the terror and fascination when faced with the world's mysteries, or of the collective subconscious, but instead as an authentic divine revelation. En este breve y contundente texto, el destacado filólogo alemán Walter F. Otto hace un rescate de la religión griega. La defiende no como consecuencia de una ilusión primitiva, de la irracionalidad del hombre, del terror y la fascinación ante los misterios del mundo, ni del inconsciente colectivo, sino más bien como una auténtica revelación divina.

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Europe

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