Dionysus, Myth and Cult
This book does not reduce the God to philosophy, or history, or psychology, but allows Dionysus to appear and then charts these appearances so that we can learn how he enters our lives -- in the symbol of the mask, tragedy and theater, in his cults with his maenads, in the depths of silence and in the exultation of pandemonium, in somber madness, through the vine and juices of vegetative nature, and in relation with women, especially his sole wife, Ariadne. A full phenomenology of the God by one of the very few scholars whose understanding of Greek myth and cult carries the reader into participation. -- From publisher's description.