Adonis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adonis write by Adūnīs. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Adonis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Frontispiece: Poem and calligraphy by Adonis, XXXX. Translated by Bassam Frangieh" --T.p. verso.
The Gardens of Adonis
The Gardens of Adonis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gardens of Adonis write by Marcel Detienne. This book was released on 2021-10-12. The Gardens of Adonis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. Using the analytic tools of structuralism, Detienne shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless deity--whose physical ineptitude led to his death in a boar hunt, after which his body was found in a lettuce patch. Contrasting the festivals of Adonis with the solemn ones dedicated to Demeter, the goddess of grain, he reveals the former as a parody and negation of the institution of marriage. Detienne considers the short-lived gardens that Athenian women planted in mockery for Adonis's festival, and explores the function of such vegetal matter as spices, mint, myrrh, cereal, and wet plants in religious practice and in a wide selection of myths. His inquiry exposes, among many things, attitudes toward sexual activities ranging from "perverse" acts to marital relations.
The Gardens of Adonis
The Gardens of Adonis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gardens of Adonis write by Marcel Detienne. This book was released on 1994-04-24. The Gardens of Adonis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. Using the analytic tools of structuralism, Detienne shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless deity--whose physical ineptitude led to his death in a boar hunt, after which his body was found in a lettuce patch. Contrasting the festivals of Adonis with the solemn ones dedicated to Demeter, the goddess of grain, he reveals the former as a parody and negation of the institution of marriage. Detienne considers the short-lived gardens that Athenian women planted in mockery for Adonis's festival, and explores the function of such vegetal matter as spices, mint, myrrh, cereal, and wet plants in religious practice and in a wide selection of myths. His inquiry exposes, among many things, attitudes toward sexual activities ranging from "perverse" acts to marital relations.
Adonis
Adonis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adonis write by Carlo Caruso. This book was released on 2013-12-05. Adonis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in post-Classical times, Carlo Caruso provides an overview of the main texts, both literary and scholarly, in Latin and in the vernacular, which secured for the Adonis myth a unique place in the Early Modern revival of Classical mythology. While aiming to provide this general outline of the myth's fortunes in the Early Modern age, the book also addresses three points of primary interest, on which most of the original research included in the work has been conducted. First, the myth's earliest significant revival in the age of Italian Humanism, and particularly in the poetry of the great Latin poet and humanist Giovanni Pontano. Secondly, the diffusion of syncretistic interpretations of the Adonis myth by means of authoritative sixteenth-century mythological encyclopaedias. Thirdly, the allegorical/political use of the Adonis myth in G.B. Marino's (1569-1625) Adone, published in Paris in 1623 to celebrate the Bourbon dynasty and to support their legitimacy with regard to the throne of France.
Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Venus and Adonis write by Philip C. Kolin. This book was released on 1997. Venus and Adonis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Critical essays on Shakespeare's epic poem, "Venus and Adonis".
