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Dionysus Books
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The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dionysus)
avg rating 3.94 — 26,161 ratings — published -405
Dionysus: Myth and Cult (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dionysus)
avg rating 4.18 — 505 ratings — published 1933
Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as dionysus)
avg rating 4.14 — 86 ratings — published 2013
Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dionysus)
avg rating 4.40 — 267 ratings — published 1976
The God of Ecstasy: Sex Roles and the Madness of Dionysus (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dionysus)
avg rating 4.36 — 50 ratings — published
Tales of Dionysus: The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dionysus)
avg rating 4.00 — 36 ratings — published 2015
A Different God?: Dionysos and Ancient Polytheism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as dionysus)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 2011
Dionysus in Exile: On the Repression of the Body and Emotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dionysus)
avg rating 3.94 — 63 ratings — published 2000
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dionysus)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,086,884 ratings — published 1992
THe God Who Comes, Dionysian Mysteries Reclaimed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dionysus)
avg rating 4.35 — 17 ratings — published 2003
The Hymn to Dionysus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,504 ratings — published 2025
Mystai. Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 4.55 — 22 ratings — published
The Frogs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,577 ratings — published -405
Dionysus and Politics: Constructing Authority in the Graeco-Roman World (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 3.78 — 152,091 ratings — published 2021
Redefining Dionysos (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2013
Dionysos at Large (Revealing Antiquity) (English and French Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 3.84 — 57 ratings — published 1986
Masks of Dionysus (Myth and Poetics)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 3.80 — 20 ratings — published 1993
Dionysos in Archaic Greece: An Understanding through Images (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 160)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 2006
Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 4.12 — 135 ratings — published 1979
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,010 ratings — published 1871
Written In Wine: A Devotional Anthology For Dionysos (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 4.36 — 28 ratings — published 2008
Bacchus : A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 3.92 — 51 ratings — published 2003
Ecstatic: For Dionysos (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 4.50 — 18 ratings — published 2011
The Bacchae and Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dionysus)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,855 ratings — published -414
Those Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published 1988
Разкъсаните богове (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Imitation Leather)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 4.40 — 867 ratings — published
Dionysus (Greek God Romance, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 2.75 — 12 ratings — published 2016
Dioniso. Storia del culto di Bacco (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 1951
Dionysos et la déesse terre (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 5.00 — 5 ratings — published
The Library of Greek Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,551 ratings — published 200
Dithyrambs of Dionysus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 3.77 — 530 ratings — published 1891
The Orphic Hymns (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 4.38 — 479 ratings — published 300
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,843 ratings — published 8
Remembering Dionysus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 4.75 — 12 ratings — published 2016
The Dionysian Vision of the World (Univocal)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 4.04 — 135 ratings — published 1870
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,475 ratings — published 1959
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,687 ratings — published 159
Dioniso e la pantera profumata (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 3.71 — 31 ratings — published 1977
Tending the Bull: A Tradition of Dionysian Devotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 4.31 — 13 ratings — published
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,405,141 ratings — published 2006
Dionysus and Rome: Religion and Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Dionysos: The New God (Olympians, #12)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 4.19 — 674 ratings — published 2022
Taken by Greek Gods: Dionysus impregnates Aura (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 3.00 — 10 ratings — published
Stygian (Dark-Hunter, #27; Were-Hunters, #11; Lords of Avalon, #7)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,615 ratings — published 2018
The Dionysian Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 3.71 — 14 ratings — published 2012
Dionysus in Winter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dionysus)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
“Die Verzückung des dionysischen Zustandes mit seiner Vernichtung der gewöhnlichen Schranken und Grenzen des Daseins enthält nämlich während seiner Dauer ein lethargisches Element, in das sich alles persönlich in der Vergangenheit Erlebte eintaucht. So scheidet sich durch diese Kluft der Vergessenheit die Welt der alltäglichen und der dionysischen Wirklichkeit von einander ab. Sobald aber jene alltägliche Wirklichkeit wieder ins Bewusstsein tritt, wird sie mit Ekel als solche empfunden; eine asketische, willenverneinende Stimmung ist die Frucht jener Zustände. In diesem Sinne hat der dionysische Mensch Aehnlichkeit mit Hamlet: beide haben einmal einen wahren Blick in das Wesen der Dinge gethan, sie haben erkannt, und es ekelt sie zu handeln; denn ihre Handlung kann nichts am ewigen Wesen der Dinge ändern, sie empfinden es als lächerlich oder schmachvoll, dass ihnen zugemuthet wird, die Welt, die aus den Fugen ist, wieder einzurichten. Die Erkenntniss tödtet das Handeln, zum Handeln gehört das Umschleiertsein durch die Illusion - das ist die Hamletlehre, nicht jene wohlfeile Weisheit von Hans dem Träumer, der aus zu viel Reflexion, gleichsam aus einem Ueberschuss von Möglichkeiten nicht zum Handeln kommt; nicht das Reflectiren, nein! - die wahre Erkenntniss, der Einblick in die grauenhafte Wahrheit überwiegt jedes zum Handeln antreibende Motiv, bei Hamlet sowohl als bei dem dionysischen Menschen. Jetzt verfängt kein Trost mehr, die Sehnsucht geht über eine Welt nach dem Tode, über die Götter selbst hinaus, das Dasein wird, sammt seiner gleissenden Wiederspiegelung in den Göttern oder in einem unsterblichen Jenseits, verneint. In der Bewusstheit der einmal geschauten Wahrheit sieht jetzt der Mensch überall nur das Entsetzliche oder Absurde des Seins, jetzt versteht er das Symbolische im Schicksal der Ophelia, jetzt erkennt er die Weisheit des Waldgottes Silen: es ekelt ihn.
Hier, in dieser höchsten Gefahr des Willens, naht sich, als rettende, heilkundige Zauberin, die Kunst; sie allein vermag jene Ekelgedanken über das Entsetzliche oder Absurde des Daseins in Vorstellungen umzubiegen, mit denen sich leben lässt: diese sind das Erhabene als die künstlerische Bändigung des Entsetzlichen und das Komische als die künstlerische Entladung vom Ekel des Absurden. Der Satyrchor des Dithyrambus ist die rettende That der griechischen Kunst; an der Mittelwelt dieser dionysischen Begleiter erschöpften sich jene vorhin beschriebenen Anwandlungen.”
― The Birth of Tragedy / The Case of Wagner
Hier, in dieser höchsten Gefahr des Willens, naht sich, als rettende, heilkundige Zauberin, die Kunst; sie allein vermag jene Ekelgedanken über das Entsetzliche oder Absurde des Daseins in Vorstellungen umzubiegen, mit denen sich leben lässt: diese sind das Erhabene als die künstlerische Bändigung des Entsetzlichen und das Komische als die künstlerische Entladung vom Ekel des Absurden. Der Satyrchor des Dithyrambus ist die rettende That der griechischen Kunst; an der Mittelwelt dieser dionysischen Begleiter erschöpften sich jene vorhin beschriebenen Anwandlungen.”
― The Birth of Tragedy / The Case of Wagner
“I know that human life shines more brightly because it is but a shimmering candle against an eternity of darkness and it can be extinguished with the faintest breeze.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne














