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Author | : Marcel Detienne |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691238332 |
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.
Author | : Adūnīs |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0300153066 |
"Frontispiece: Poem and calligraphy by Adonis, XXXX. Translated by Bassam Frangieh" --T.p. verso.
Author | : Carlo Caruso |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2013-12-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 147253882X |
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.
Author | : Laurialan Reitzammer |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2016-05-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0299308200 |
A fresh examination of a marginalized women's festival that influenced Athenian art, drama, philosophy, and public institutions.
Author | : Marcel Detienne |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1994-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691001043 |
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.
Author | : Harrison Pope |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Body image in men |
ISBN | : 0684869101 |
Growing numbers of young men are taking the quest for perfect muscles, skin and hair too far, crossing the line from normal interest to pathological obsession. For the first time, three of the world's leading authorities on men help us to understand and combat the frightening set of compulsive behaviours that make up the Adonis Complex. Combining colourful case studies with scientific research, they reveal a threat that is as serious as the beauty myth for women or anorexia nervosa for girls. The symptoms of this dangerous body obsession, excessive workouts, steroid abuse, eating disorders and body and muscle dysmorphic disorder (distorted body perception), lead to problems with sex and intimacy, relationships and work. In teenagers, the Adonis Complex can interfere with healthy emotional and physical development. Until now, frank discussion of this problem has been virtually taboo. At last we can hear what men really think and feel about their bodies, so that those who suffer in silence will no longer need to suffer alone.
Author | : Philip C. Kolin |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Adonis (Greek deity) in literature |
ISBN | : 081532149X |
Critical essays on Shakespeare's epic poem, "Venus and Adonis".
Author | : James George Frazer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Magic |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kaizer Mabhilidi Nyatsumba |
Publisher | : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency |
Total Pages | : 767 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1628577762 |
“We walked on a patch of grass that seemed to have been burnt a few hours earlier, with soot covering our feet. There, in front of us, lay my beloved brother, Adonis, lifeless, his body facing up. There were numerous stab wounds on his body, including his face, and his lumber jacket was half burnt.” Thus begins Kaizer Nyatsumba’s tragic story of his twin brother’s horrible murder. It is also an intriguing look into aspects of South African life hitherto unknown to many. They were twins of a special kind, the closest of friends, and each other’s confidantes. Their mothers were sisters, they were inseparable when they grew up, they were the first graduates in the extended family, and were the ones the family depended on for leadership. When Adonis was brutally murdered in the Pretoria area in June 2009, Kaizer was shattered and his life irrevocably changed. A part of him died with Adonis, and he has yet to come fully to terms with the loss. A very private man, the author bares his soul in this book.
Author | : James George Frazer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Magic |
ISBN | : |