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https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21372| Title: | Adonis | Contributor(s): | Dillon, Matthew P (author) |
Publication Date: | 2016 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21372 | Abstract: | The celebration of Adonis's rites by women on rooftops in ancient Greece reflects CANAANITE religious practices, but to what extent the Greek cult was Eastern is indeterminate. Adonis was APHRODITE's beloved; when he was slain by a boar, she laid him in a bed of lettuce. He was worshipped by Greek women from at least the sixth century BCE, his rites centering on ritual laments, breast-beating and rending of their clothes to mark his death; this was a private cult not sanctioned by the state. | Publication Type: | Entry In Reference Work | Source of Publication: | The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, p. 14-14 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | New York, United States of America | ISBN: | 9780415831970 9780203506240 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210306 Classical Greek and Roman History | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430305 Classical Greek and roman history | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
HERDC Category Description: | N Entry In Reference Work | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/226306875 |
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