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The Athenian Adonia in Context Laurialan Reitzammer

The Athenian Adonia in Context By Laurialan Reitzammer

The Athenian Adonia in Context by Laurialan Reitzammer


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The Athenian Adonia in Context: The Adonis Festival as Cultural Practice by Laurialan Reitzammer

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 is a timely contribution to studies of the ways gender and sexuality intersect with religion and ritual in ancient Greece.

The Athenian Adonia in Context Reviews

Uncovers remarkable and unsuspected depths in the works of such figures as Aristophanes and Plato. This is the most compelling and sophisticated study available of any single Athenian ritual and the most challenging to received notions about the wider role of religion in city-state society. - Richard P. Martin, Standford University

[This] study of the Adonia as offering cultural critiques played out in specific texts is a major innovation. . . . A model for new readings of other seemingly marginal rites.-Journal of Hellenic Studies

About Laurialan Reitzammer

Laurialan Reitzammer is an assistant professor of classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

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NPB9780299308209
9780299308209
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The Athenian Adonia in Context: The Adonis Festival as Cultural Practice by Laurialan Reitzammer
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University of Wisconsin Press
2016-05-30
248
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