The Athenian Adonia in Context 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 offers a timely contribution to studies of the ways gender and sexuality intersect with religion and ritual in ancient Greece.
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Oedipus Rex
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Flinders Petrie
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Hellenistic Sculpture V. 1; Styles of Ca. 331-200 B.C.
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Hellenistic Sculpture II
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The Game of Death in Ancient Rome
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Agamemnon
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Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art
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Religion in Ancient Etruria
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The Image of the Poet in Ovid's Metamorphoses
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Shaping Ceremony
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The Iconography of Sculptured Statue Bases in the Archaic and Classical Periods
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Language and Authority in De Lingua Latina
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The Hellenistic Aesthetic
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Ctesias' Persica in Its Near Eastern Context
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Silenced Voices
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The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta
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Repeat Performances
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Echoing Hylas
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Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy
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Ctesias' Persica and Its Near Eastern Context
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Women in Roman Republican Drama
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Insults in Classical Athens
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Reset in Stone
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In the Flesh
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The Gods of the Greeks
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The Archaeology of the Olympics
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The Codrus Painter
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The Slave in Greece and Rome
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New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome
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Trojan Women, Helen, Hecuba
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Satire and the Threat of Speech in Horace's "Satires" Bk. 1
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Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture
Uncovers remarkable and unsuspected depths in the works of such figures as Aristophanes and PlatoThis 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
“[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
Laurialan Reitzammer is an assistant professor of classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780299308247 |
| ISBN 10 | 0299308243 |
| Title | The Athenian Adonia in Context |
| Author | Laurialan Reitzammer |
| Series | Wisconsin Studies In Classics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Year published | 2018-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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