{"product_id":"the-athenian-adonia-in-context-laurialan-reitzammer-9780299308209","title":"The Athenian Adonia in Context: The Adonis Festival as Cultural Practice","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLysistrata\u003c\/i\u003e and Plato's dialogue \u003ci\u003ePhaedrus\u003c\/i\u003e. Her fresh approach is a timely contribution to studies of the ways gender and sexuality intersect with religion and ritual in ancient Greece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurialan Reitzammer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299308200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299308209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Laurialan Reitzammer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013719273727,"sku":"9780299308209","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_88a30938-04e6-45b0-a859-37d94b89c69c.jpg?v=1767744342","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-athenian-adonia-in-context-laurialan-reitzammer-9780299308209","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}