Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Walter F. Otto's Dionysos (1933) -- Dionysos in the Mycenaean World -- The Term βάκχος and Dionysos Βάκχιος -- Apollo and Dionysos: Intersections -- 'Rien pour Dionysos?' Le dithyrambe comme forme poétique entre Apollon et Dionysos -- Redefining Dionysos in Athens from the Written Sources: The Lenaia, lacchos and Attic Women -- Gender Differentiation and Role Models in the Worship of Dionysos: The Thracian and Thessalian Pattern -- Dionysos versus Orpheus? -- Maenadic Ecstasy in Greece: Fact or Fiction? -- Maenadic Ecstasy in Rome: Fact or Fiction? -- Dioniso e i cani di Atteone in Eumelo di Corinto (Una nuova ipotesi su P. Oxy. xxx 2509 e Apollod. 3.4.4) -- Dionysos in the Homeric Hymns: the Olympian Portrait of the God -- Herodotus' Egyptian Dionysos. A Comparative Perspective -- Dushara and Allāt alias Dionysos and Aphrodite in Herodotus 3.8 -- The Sophoclean Dionysos -- Under the Spell of the Dionysian: Some Meta-tragic Aspects of the Xenos Attributes in Euripides' Bacchae -- The Image of Dionysos in Euripides' Bacchae: The God and his Epiphanies -- The Names of Dionysos in Euripides' Bacchae and the Rhetorical Language of Teiresias -- Dionysos in Old Comedy. Staging of Experiments on Myth and Cult -- Dionysian Enthusiasm in Plato -- Les 'Dionysoi' de Patras: Le mythe et le culte de Dionysos dans la Periégèse de Pausanias -- Dionysos in Egypt? Epaphian Dionysos in the Orphic Hymns -- Dioniso tra polinomia ed enoteismo: il caso degli Inni Orfici -- Dionysos and Dionysism in the Third Book of Maccabees -- Parallels between Dionysos and Christ in Late Antiquity: Miraculous Healings in Nonnus' Dionysiaca -- The Gifts of Dionysos -- The Symposiast Dionysos: A God like Ourselves.

Bacchus and Felines in Roman Iconography: Issues of Gender and Species -- An Augustan Trend towards Dionysos: Around the 'Auditorium of Maecenas' -- Dionysos: One or Many? -- Contributors -- Analytic Index -- Index Fontium.