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Anacreontea (Ancient Greek: Ἀνακρεόντεια) is the title given to a collection of some sixty Greek poems on the topics of wine, beauty, erotic love, and the worship of Dionysus. The corpus date to between the 1st century BC and the 6th century AD, and is attributed pseudepigraphically to Anacreon .
The triumph of Dionysus, depicted on a 2nd-century Roman sarcophagus. Dionysus rides in a chariot drawn by panthers; his procession includes elephants and other exotic animals. The Dionysiaca / ˌ d aɪ. ə. n ɪ ˈ z aɪ. ə. k ə / (Ancient Greek: Διονυσιακά, Dionysiaká) is an ancient Greek epic poem and the principal work of Nonnus.
"The Free Besieged" (Greek: Οι Ελεύθεροι Πολιορκημένοι, Oi Eleftheroi Poliorkimenoi) is an epic, unfinished work, composed by Dionysios Solomos and inspired by the third siege of Missolonghi (1825–1826), a crucial conflict of the Greek War of Independence. [1]
Mosaic of Dionysus from Antioch. Nonnus's principal work is the 48-book epic Dionysiaca, the longest surviving poem from classical antiquity. [6] It has 20,426 lines composed in Homeric Greek and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return. The poem is to be dated to ...
Dionysian imitatio is the influential literary method of imitation as formulated by Greek author Dionysius of Halicarnassus in the first century BCE, which conceived it as the rhetorical practice of emulating, adapting, reworking and enriching a source text by an earlier author.
Emily Wilson was born in 1971 in Oxford, England to a family of scholars, [1] and is a professor of classics at the University of Pennsylvania. [2] Wilson completed her undergraduate degree in literae humaniores at the University of Oxford in 1994, a masters degree in English Renaissance literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1996, and a Ph.D. in classical and comparative literature ...
Dionysius the Phaselite (Ancient Greek: Διονύσιος ο Φασηλίτης) was an ancient Greek grammarian. He flourished in the Hellenistic period , around the 1st century BC . He was particularly involved in the criticism of ancient poetry .
The musical keeps the descent of Dionysus into Hades to bring back a playwright; however, the playwrights are updated to modern times, and Dionysus is forced to choose between George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare. [338] In 2006, The Orion Experience, in the album Cosmicandy, included a song titled "Cult of Dionysus". The song invokes ...