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The Gardens of Adonis
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ISBN 9780691001043
REGISTERED: 01/04/18
UPDATED: 07/29/25
The Gardens of Adonis

Spices in Greek Mythology Marcel Detienne. reached the age of twenty. At this stage they might taste these pleasures but only with moderation, never to excess. 7 Precocity and sensuality were not the only dangers to guard against where ...


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  • The Gardens of Adonis available on June 11 2015 from Amazon for 32.95
  • ISBN bar code 9780691001043 ξ2 registered February 13 2015
  • ISBN bar code 9780691001043 ξ1 registered September 21 2015
  • ISBN bar code 9780691001043 ξ3 registered June 11 2015
  • Product category is Book
  • Manufacturered by Princeton University Press

  • Product weight is 0.65 lbs.
Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book, first published in 1972, recast long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. The author challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis - whose premature death was mourned by women and whose resurrection marked a joyous occasion - represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. Using the analytic tools of structuralism, Detienne shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless deity - whose physical ineptitude led to his death in a boar hunt, after which his body was found in a lettuce patch. Contrasting the festivals of Adonis with the solemn ones dedicated to Demeter, the goddess of grain, he reveals the former as a parody and negation of the institution of marriage. Detienne considers the short-lived gardens that Athenian women planted in mockery for Adonis's festival, and explores the function of such vegetal matter as spices, mint, myrrh, cereal, and wet plants in religious practice and in a wide selection of myths. His inquiry exposes, among many things, the way sin which women of various martial statuses were regarded and attitudes toward sexual activity ranging from "perverse" acts to marital relations.

References
    ^ (1977). The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology (revised Oct 2015)
    ^ Mythos the Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology: The Gardens of Adonis : Spices in Greek Mythology by Marcel Detienne (1994, Paperback, Revised, Reprint) (revised Sep 2017)
    ^ (1994). The Gardens of Adonis, Princeton University Press. Amazon. (revised Jun 2015)

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