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18 - The Cult of Dionysus in Ancient Georgia

from Part IV - Performative Presences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2019

David Braund
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
Edith Hall
Affiliation:
King's College London
Rosie Wyles
Affiliation:
University of Kent, Canterbury
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During thirteen years of excavations at Pichvnari on the Black Sea, the Anglo-Georgian Expedition found enough material to fill a museum (in Batumi) which opened in 2014. The Dionysian concept certainly existed in Pichvnari, if only in the name of a real person who lived there some twenty-six centuries ago, one Dionysios Leodamantos (Dionysios son of Leodamas), inscribed on an Attic black-gloss cup that was deliberately broken during a ritual feast at a grave. The tradition of making toasts to the dead and of pouring wine on the grave is still performed in Georgia on Remembrance Day (which falls on Easter Monday). The discovery of the inscribed cup tends to confirm the suggestion made by Amiran Kakhidze that an ethnically Greek population lived and died in Pichvnari.

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