List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionIMinoan Visions5IILight and Honey29IIIThe Cretan Core of the Dionysos Myth52IVThe Myths of Arrival129VDionysos Trieterikos, God of the Two-Year Period189VIThe Dionysos of the Athenians and of His Worshipers in the Greek Mysteries273Abbreviations391List of Works Cited393Index421A Note on C. Kerenyi445A Bibliography of C. Kerenyi447

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Carl Kerényi was professor of classics and the history of religion in his native Hungary and later became a citizen of Switzerland. He died in 1973 at the age of 76. His works include Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter and, with C. G. Jung, Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis.

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