Dionysiac , also: Dionysian

The catalyst that made this possible was Dionysiac music.

But there's a terrible price to pay when the students decide to sample Dionysiac frenzy for themselves.

The southern pillar is decorated with relief scenes of a Dionysiac circle.

This is the basis of the Dionysiac experience: the collapse of individuation.

He mainly painted scenes of everyday life or dionysiac scenes.

The Dionysiac capacity of a nation is revealed equally by its music and its tragic myth.

Many of the vases also bear dionysiac imagery.

Dionysiac scenes are common as well.

Dionysiac music - music proper - introduced the emotional power of tone, melody and harmony.

Originally it was the satyr chorus of the Dionysiac dithyramb.

But thanks to Euripides' earlier efforts, the Dionysiac element in tragedy had been negated already.

The development of the new German music drama, therefore, fully attests our latent Dionysiac capacity.

The largest share of Hermonax' surviving work depicts Dionysiac themes.

The themes depicted include erotes, images from the life of women, theatre scenes and dionysiac motifs.

Dionysiac scenes represent people in Classical style drinking wine from amphoras and playing instruments.

However, his questions reveal that he is deeply interested in the Dionysiac rites, which the stranger refuses to reveal fully to him.

He often painted dionysiac scenes, but his best works are those focusing on depcitions of posture and dignity.

This meant that the Dionysiac participants were divided into two separate groups, worshippers (making up a new and smaller chorus) and spectators.

Tragedy's specific effect depends on the interaction of its two components, the Apolline drama and the Dionysiac music.

Soon afterwards he returned to Athens, as his Dionysiac victory of 329 BC shows.

"All this makes the Dionysiac rites credential," Zac retorted.

For example, the Dionysiac dance in "Lughnasa" is carefully choreographed in the text itself.

And the reason why the Greeks should have needed such consolation is that in their Dionysiac ecstasies they had looked into the painful essence of life.

The Apolline is secondary, the source of those illusions with which the Dionysiac world must, for our sakes, be transfigured.

The most common motifs are naiskos and grave scenes, dionysiac scenes and symposia.