Dionysos - Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life : Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xxii Preface xxiii Introduction xxxi Part One: The Cretan Prelude Minoan Visions The Spirit of Minoan Art 5(5) The Minoan Gesture 10(4) Visionary Crete 14(6) Transcendence in Nature 20(2) Artificially Induced Transcendence 22(7) Light and Honey Flaming New Year 29(6) The Preparation of Mead 35(3) The Awakening of the Bees 38(3) The Birth of Orion 41(3) Mythology of the Leather Sack 44(8) The Cretan Core of the Dionysos Myth Bull, Snake, Ivy, and Wine 52(16) Dionysian Names 68(5) Iakar and Iakchos 73(7) Zagreus 80(9) Ariadne 89(40) Part Two: The Greek Cult and Myth The Myths of Arrival From the History of Science 129(10) The Forms of Arrival 139(2) Arrivals in Attica 141(19) The Arrival in Athens 160(15) Myth of Arrival and Ancient Rite outside of Attica: Thebes and Delphi 175(14) Dionysos Trieterikos, God of the Two-Year Period Age and Continuity of the Trieteric Cult 189(9) The Dialectic of the Two-Year Period 198(6) Dionysos in Delphi 204(34) The Mystical Sacrificial Rite 238(24) The Enthronement 262(11) The Dionysos of the Athenians and of His Worshipers in the Greek Mysteries The Thigh Birth and the Idol with the Mask 273(17) The Dionysian Festivals of the Athenians 290(25) The Beginnings of Tragedy in Attica 315(15) The Birth and Transformation of Comedy in Athens 330(19) The Greek Dionysian Religion of Late Antiquity 349(42) Abbreviations 391(2) List of Works Cited 393(28) Index 421(24) A Note on C. Kerenyi 445(2) A Bibliography of C. Kerenyi 447