Dionysos und seine Familie auf griechischen Münzen - Numismatischer Beitrag zur Ikonographie des Dionysos

Abstract

The opening study of the first volume, a numismatic contribution to the iconography of Dionysos. Collecting the Greek coins that refer by image and legend to the cult of Dionysos produced so unsurveyable an abundance that the god's family had to be treated separately; Pan, satyr and silenus are to receive a section of their own, not least because in their beginnings these deities of woodland and pasture have no relation to the cult of Dionysos at all. Pan originally embodied pastoral life independently, while with the satyrs of the earliest coinage the sexual drive stands in the foreground, which shows in the depiction: Pan more human, the satyrs with goat or horse feet. As to the god's homeland the ancient authors name Thrace, perhaps also Phrygia or Lydia.

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Suggested citation

Bernhart, Max: Dionysos und seine Familie auf griechischen Münzen - Numismatischer Beitrag zur Ikonographie des Dionysos. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 1 (1949), pp. 7–176, Tf.1-11.

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