Dionysus - Couverture souple

Ioakim, Ioakim

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798235482333

Editeur : Ioakim Ioakim, 2026

Synopsis

His mother was burned alive by the god who loved her. He was saved from her body and carried to term in his father's thigh. He was torn apart by Titans and reassembled. He wandered in exile and madness. He arrived in Greece as a stranger, was refused, and became the god without whom the culture could not function.

Dionysus is the twice-born god - the god of wine and ecstasy and theater and the dissolution of the boundaries between the self and the world. The last of the Olympians to arrive and the most necessary. The god whose worship the Greeks most feared and most needed simultaneously.

Dionysus is the interior account of the most complicated of the divine beings - what it meant to be the god of the thing that unmade the self, to govern the ecstasy that was also terror, to bring the liberation that was also danger. The Maenads who left their homes for the mountains. Pentheus, who refused and died at his own mother's hands. Ariadne, weeping on Naxos, whom he found and made divine. The theatrical tradition - tragedies and comedies both - born from his festivals. The dissolution that revealed connection. The dying and the returning that was at the center of everything.

He was the joy that was also terror. He always returns. This is that story.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

[Ioakim] spent years researching and imagining a
world on the brink. When not writing, they can be
found exploring forgotten archives, debating
current events, or dreaming up the next big story.
He live "in a quiet town near the sea with his family

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ioakim Ioakim
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798235482333
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 66
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