Gardens of Adonis
Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne''s landmark book recasts 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 ...
Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne''s landmark book recasts 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 ...
