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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 300 pages. 8.27x5.83x7.90 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Uncertain, nuanced, and contradictory, the myth of Adonis seems to resolve itself entirely into a story of absolute lovea?'the love that binds the young shepherd-hunter to the goddess of love herself in a relationship of unwavering happiness. When the boy's sudden death, in a trivial hunting accident, puts an end to the idyll, the story becomes readablea?'and will be reada?'as an illustrious archetype of the love/death duo. The dizzying contrast between unspeakable happiness and incurable agony thus points to the precariousness of joy as the symbolic key to this mytha?'and is found inscribed in the rhythm of the festivities for Adonis, which throughout the ancient Mediterranean juxtaposed th. …