Listen to some of ancient Athens’ greatest writers and philosophers,from Plato to Aristophanes, and you’ll come absent thinking that the annual festival of Adonis was an absurd, or over-the-top,insignificant — yet potentially perilous — cult ritual observed by hysterical, wailing women. A CU-Boulder classicist argues that the festival was actually a “dissent and a critique of important cultural practices.”
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