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...
Ancient sources and modern scholars have often represented the Athenian festival of Adonis as a marginal and faintly ridiculous private women s ritual...
Rediscovers the symbolism of women's rituals in ancient Athens. A timely contribution to studies of the ways gender and sexuality intersect with religion and culture in ancient Greece.
Rediscovers the symbolism of women's rituals in ancient Athens. A timely contribution to studies of the ways gender and sexuality intersect with relig...