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Dionysos à ciel ouvert

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Quand Dionysos surgit sur la scène grecque, le multiple toujours l'accompagne. Divers, imprévisible, comment le reconnaître ? Le masque qui le dérobe est aussi celui qui le révèle. Son apparition est faite de jeux incessants, de présence et d'absence, son identité reste indéfiniment celle de l'équivoque. Souriant ou irrité, qu'il marche ou qu'il bondisse, il se présente ainsi sous le masque de l'étranger. Il vient d'ailleurs, et, n'étant nulle part chez lui, il incarne dans l'imaginaire grec cet " étranger de l'intérieur ". Dionysos habite également les puissances de la vigne, et lorsque jaillit son suc - substance où se mêlent la mort et la vie décuplée - le vin précipite l'humain dans la bestialité ou l'emporte vers une extase divine. Dans cet essai d'érudition et de plaisir, Marcel Detienne introduit son lecteur au cœur de l'excès et de ses logiques singulières.

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121 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

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Marcel Detienne

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Marcel Detienne was a Belgian historian and specialist in the study of Ancient Greece.

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4 reviews7 followers
May 23, 2021
The book has its ups and downs. It is not an introduction on the cultic aspect of the greek God, nor his origins, the reader must have some previous knowledge about greek landscapes and culture when it comes to Dionysus. Detienne’s attempt to cover some of Dionysus aspects and different approaches depending on where his cult took place is very interesting but it does have some lack of substance and direction. I have no ideia why the author chose the poetic (and somehow tiresome and repetitive) language to tell us the god’s whereabouts. Unfortunately it is not as beautiful as I think he intended to. It is entertaining as it is superficial, of course is a tiny piece of work, probably not meant to be anything deep and academic (although it is academic in some sense). Detienne does not touch the subject of tragedy and its correlation to Dionysus, nor his mysteries linking life and death. The most special thing about this book are the stories about dionisiac mania and the mysteries of wine drinking and viticulture. The book is worth the reading and I’m always an admirer of Detienne’s work in general, but I believe it will not be everyone’s cup of tea. I would recommend it for students in the classics field, but a curious reader could be left somehow disapointed.
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December 21, 2019
Es un estudio muy interesante sobre las representaciones dionisiacas en la Antigua Grecia. "El vino es una sustancia en la que se mezclan la muerte y la vida considerablemente aumentada, dónde se intercambian el fuego ardiente y la humedad que apaga la sed; es un remedio tanto como un veneno, una droga por la cuál se sobrepasa lo humano o se vira hacia la brutalidad, descubre el éxtasis o hunde en la bestialidad: Centauro repartiendo coces en la alta sala del palacio", "Dionisio a cielo abierto", Marcel Detienne.
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September 28, 2022
A ti nadie te Detienne, Marcel! Un text fantàsticament escrit, profund i ben ordenat. Deixo mitja frase que m'ha impactat, en relació a l'element dansívol de Dionís, i a aquesta mena de sotrac que durant el text s'anomena el brotar-saltar propi del nostre estimat Déu: HAY ALGO DE PALPITANTE EN LA BESTIA HUMANA.
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September 9, 2021
<3 This book completly changed my notion of Dionyso and I got totally enchanted by Rhea. I'll surely read it again and again and also look for more information about Rhea.
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