The present essay will use some of this material, but will look at it from a different angle. The media discussed included painted vases, mosaics, luxury items, votive reliefs, cult statues and sculptured altar friezes. Several contributions to the Berlin conference dealt with the presentation of Dionysos in art.1 Chronologically, the contributions ranged from the 6th century B.C. painted vases and sculptured sarcophagi as subgenres of the visual arts, do not present Dionysos in exactly the same way: factors such as the aims of the customer or the producer as well as the context of the reception of the work in question have to be taken into consideration, too.

Even the different subgenres of one and the same genre, e. What we are told about the god is also a question of genre – the main ones of interest here are literature, visual arts and performing arts, especially theatre. 'The specific nature of Dionysos’ ‘difference’ does not only depend on a given epoch and its intellectual and historical background.

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