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 structural...
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Marcel Detienne is Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins University.
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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 256 ● ISBN 9780691238333 ● Mărime fișier 3.4 MB ● Traducător Janet Lloyd ● Editura Princeton University Press ● Oraș Princeton ● Țară US ● Publicat 2021 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 7919049 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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