The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition - Bollingen Series - Marcel Detienne - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691001043 - April 24, 1994
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The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition - Bollingen Series Second edition

Marcel Detienne

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The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition - Bollingen Series Second edition

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.


256 pages, 7 halftones 30 graphs

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 24, 1994
ISBN13 9780691001043
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 256
Dimensions 250 × 142 × 21 mm   ·   344 g
Language English  
Translator Lloyd, Janet

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