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Title: The Athenian Adonia in Context
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Adonis Festival as Cultural Practice
Author: Laurialan Reitzammer
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780299308247
ISBN: 9780299308247
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Genre: History
Topic: Ancient History
Release Date: 30/07/2018
Description: Ancient sources and modern scholars have often represented the Athenian festival of Adonis as a marginal and faintly ridiculous private women's ritual. Seeds were planted each year in pots and, once sprouted, carried to the rooftops, where women lamented the death of Aphrodite's youthful consort Adonis. Laurialan Reitzammer resourcefully examines a wide array of surviving evidence about the Adonia, arguing for its symbolic importance in fifth- and fourth-century Athenian culture as an occasion for gendered commentary on mainstream Athenian practices.

Reitzammer uncovers correlations of the Adonia to Athenian wedding rituals and civic funeral oration and provides illuminating evidence that the festival was a significant cultural template for such diverse works as Aristophanes' drama Lysistrata and Plato's dialogue Phaedrus. Her fresh approach offers a timely contribution to studies of the ways gender and sexuality intersect with religion and ritual in ancient Greece.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 13mm
Item Weight: 393g
Book Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics
Release Year: 2018

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