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Adonia: the celebration of Adonis

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Celebration associated with Adonis; texts and images attest practices varying by place and time, including planters, mourning and farewell.

Attic red-figure oil jar, mid-4th century BCE; a woman receives a planter from Eros in a scene associated with the Adonia. Metropolitan Museum, 22.139.26; Public Domain
Attic red-figure oil jar, mid-4th century BCE; a woman receives a planter from Eros in a scene associated with the Adonia. Metropolitan Museum, 22.139.26; Public DomainThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, 22.139.26; Public Domain · Public domainObject record

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PlatoPlatoGreek philosopher; the Timaeus’s maker differs from later religious conceptions of God.Glossary · Click to read the explanation mentions gardens of AdonisAdonis: death and return in differing narrativesFigure associated with Aphrodite, mourning and celebration; divided residence, death and return differ between sources.Glossary · Click to read the explanation in a philosophical analogy; Theocritus portrays an Alexandrian celebration. The cover shows a scene associated by the museum with Athenian Adonia, not one uniform rite in every city or a body rising from a grave. [9][12][13]

References and notes

  1. Displayed song and context read; pre-Christian annual return, not precise dating of every action. Theocritus, Idyll 15; Adonis song; historical excerpt from Mitchell Carroll, Greek Women (1908), pp. 369–375 Return to the text ↑
  2. Catalogue, original and rights checked; Adonis/Aphrodite tentative, scene not Dumuzi. Metropolitan Museum, 22.139.26; Attic red-figure squat lekythos, mid-4th century BCE; Adonia Return to the text ↑
  3. Gardens passage and context read; philosophical analogy, not complete ritual description. Plato, Phaedrus 276b; Benjamin Jowett translation; gardens of Adonis comparison Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 12 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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