Dionysos at Large

By Marcel Detienne

Subjects: Dionysus (greek deity), Dionysus, Dionysus (Greek deity)

Description: As the perpetual stranger Dionysos is the embodiment of strangeness. He is nowhere at home, and yet in another sense the world is his home. Detienne evokes the manic activity of Dionysos in myths that connect him with the shedding of blood, the pouring of wine, and the ejaculation of semen.