The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology)

by Marcel Detienne (Author), Marcel Detienne (Author), Janet Lloyd (Translator), J.-P. Vernant (Introduction)

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $48.97

  Recasts various ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. This book challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. It uses the analytic tools of structuralism and shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless deity.