♫ Градил Дионис килия…♫♫ или за Брад Пит и Трифон Зарезан
♫ "Dionysus was Building a Chamber" ♫♫ or on Brad Pitt and Trifon Zarezan

Summary/Abstract: The text explores the way ancient literary and mythological stories and personages are being used in modernity. The first part of it focuses on the cinematographic representations of ancient stories explaining some differences between the literary sources and their modern interpretations. Then, it explores local Bulgarian festivals that include some ancient divine or heroic personage, e. g. Dionysos, Sabasius, Roman warriors, etc. The practice of “reconstructing” i. e. composing the past is interpreted in terms of gaining prestige and in terms of the attempt to fabricate a coherent religious, cultural and even political history of Bulgaria.

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