Augustus and Dionysus'Triumph: a nonexistent Paradox, in the conference proceedings of the Symposium Veronense, “The Age of Augustus”, June 18- June 20 2014, forthcoming in Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae.

While there are countless studies concerning Augustus, his age and policy and a huge bibliography on Dionysus covering diverse periods and contexts of the Roman epoch, little discussion has actually taken place, thus far, as regards Dionysiac themes and cults specifically within the Augustan Age. In other words, the binomial Augustus-Dionysus has barely been able to arouse interest among scholars. While this fact may, of course, be purely accidental, nevertheless I believe there exists a precise reason that has discouraged such a research perspective.