Adonia

Mulieres Adonia celebrant: vas Atticum c. 430-420 a.C.n. a "pictore Athens 1454" ornatum (Museum Lupariense)

Adonia (n. pl. Graece: Ἀδώνια) fuerunt sacra in Graecia antiqua a mulieribus ob Adonem mortuum celebrata; hortos Adonis conficiebant carmenque "Adonis" auscultabant. Sigilla Adonem mortuum ostendentia exponebant et magnum luctum simulabant. Romana Adonia die 19 Iunii celebrabantur.

Fontes praecipui

• Ammianus Marcellinus XIX.1.11 necnon XXII.9.15
• Aristophanes, Lysistrata 387-396
• Bion, "Epitaphius Adonis"
• Menander, Samia 39-50
• Plutarchus, Alcibiades 18.4
• Suda s.v. "Adonia"
• Theocritus, "Syracusiae sive Adonidis festum celebrantes" Textus et versio

Bibliographia

• "Adonia" in William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Londinii, 1842; 2a ed., 1865; 3a ed., 1870) p. 14
• "Adonis" in William Smith, ed., Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (Londinii: Taylor & Walton, 1844-1849 ~) vol. 1 p. 25
• Wahib Atallah, Adonis dans la littérature et l'art grecs, Parisiis, Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1966 Recensio critica Altera recensio critica Tertia recensio critica Quarta recensio critica
• Marcel Detienne, Le jardin d'Adonis: la mythologie des aromates en Grèce. Lutetiae, 1972
• Matthew Dillon, Girls and women in classical Greek religion. 2003 Paginae selectae
• "The Gardens of Adonis" in J. G. Frazer, The Golden Bough (editio brevis, 1922)
• Ronda R. Simms, "Mourning and Community at the Athenian Adonia" in Classical Journal vol. 93 (1997) pp. 121-141
• Ernest Will, "̪Le rituel des Adonies", Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire, 1975ː 93-105
• J. J. Winkler, The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece. Novi Eboraci, 1990

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