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Adonis: death and return in differing narratives

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Figure associated with Aphrodite, mourning and celebration; divided residence, death and return differ between sources.

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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Divided residence precedes Adonis’s killing in Library 3.14.4; Ovid narrates flower and remembrance, Theocritus annual return. These different witnesses alone do not prove transmission of a later resurrectionResurrection of the deadThe dead returning to life, distinguished from soul immortality, with differing scope and form among texts.Glossary · Click to read the explanation doctrine. The cover depicts Athenian AdoniaAdonia: the celebration of AdonisCelebration associated with Adonis; texts and images attest practices varying by place and time, including planters, mourning and farewell.Glossary · Click to read the explanation; identification of Adonis on the vase is tentative. [7][8][9][12]

References and notes

  1. Both passages read; divided year precedes the killing, not its explicit resolution here. Apollodorus, Library 3.14.3–4; J. G. Frazer historical translation Return to the text ↑
  2. Specified passages only; flower and remembrance separated from restoration of the person. Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.519–559 and 705–739; Brookes More historical translation Return to the text ↑
  3. 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 ↑
  4. 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 ↑

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