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The Adonia festival (1)

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Festival of Tammuz (Tammuz/summer solstice)
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.01 Public festivals
03.01.03 Festival of Tammuz (Tammuz/summer solstice)
Syncretism
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism)
01.04.03.04 Syncretism
Wailing of Tammuz
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.01 Public festivals
03.01.03 Festival of Tammuz (Tammuz/summer solstice)
03.01.03.01 Wailing of Tammuz

Keywords
Adonis
festivals

Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Plutarch refers to the departure of Athenian fleet in 415 BCE.

Plutarch, Alcibiades 18.2-3:
There were some unpropitious signs and portents, especially in connection with the festival, named the Adonia. This fell at that time, and little images like dead folk carried forth to burial were in many places exposed to view by the women, who mimicked burial rites, beat their breasts, and sang dirges.

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Plutarch, Alcibiades 18.2-3

Bibliography

Mettinger 2001, 117

Mettinger, T. Riddle of Resurrection. "Dying and Rising Gods" in the Ancient Near East. Coniectanea Biblica Old Testament Series 50. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International 2001.

Amar Annus

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