Dionysiaca aurea

Stéphanie Wyler (1)

1 ANHIMA - Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques

The return of the Golden Age under the aegis of Dionysus is a theme that was developed in Rome towards the end of the Republic and at the beginning of the Empire, in a period stretching from Catullus to Ovid. The image was later appropriated by Augustus, who integrated it into the aesthetic and religious programme of the Principate. I shall begin by examining these Augustan images, and then move on to look at the evolution of Dionysian iconography under the Julio-Claudians, paying particular attention to the decor of the Domus Transitoria and Domus Aurea.

Mots clés: Golden Age; Seneca the Younger en; Catullus; Vergil; Domus Aurea; Euripide's Bacchae; Horace; Villa della Farnesina; Auditorium of Maecenas; Domus Transitoria; Dionysos

Domaines: Etudes classiques; Art et histoire de l'art; Histoire; Archéologie et Préhistoire; Religions; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Stéphanie Wyler. Dionysiaca aurea: The development of Dionysiac images from Augustus to Nero . Neronia Electronica, 2012, 2, pp.3-19. ⟨hal-01508583⟩