The Gardens of Adonis Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition |
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Author:
| Detienne, Marcel |
Translator:
| Lloyd, Janet |
Introduction by:
| Vernant, Jean-Pierre |
Series title: | Mythos: the Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-691-00104-3 |
Publication Date: | Apr 1994 |
Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $48.00 |
Book Description:
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Recasts various ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. This book challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. It uses the analytic tools of structuralism and shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless deity.
Recasts various ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. This book challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. It uses the analytic tools of structuralism and shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless deity.