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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 ...

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    • Title: The Gardens of Adonis by Marcel Detienne
    • Publisher: Princeton University Press
    • Print ISBN: 9780691001043, 0691001049
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    • Edition: 1994 2nd edition
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