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Alan Hovhaness

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Gardens of Adonis

The main feature of the festival at Athens were the "Gardens of Adonis",broken pieces of terracotta which had lettuce and fennel seeds sown in them.[6] These seeds sprouted, but soon withered and died.[6] Though most scholars say that these gardens withered due to being exposed to the heat of the summer,[13] Dillon, who believes that the Adonia was held in the spring, says that the plants instead failed because they could not take root in the shallow soil held by the terracotta shards.[6] In support of this, he cites Diogenianus,[14] who says that in the Gardens of Adonis, seedlings "wither quickly because they have not taken root". In ancient Greece, the phrase "Gardens of Adonis" was used proverbially to refer to something "trivial and wasteful".

The symbolism of the Gardens of Adonis is also widely debated: according to James George Frazer, the Gardens of Adonis were supposed to be a sort of ritual performed in order to promote a good harvest, that the actual crops were to grow fast like the little gardens. To John J. Winkler the gardens were meant to represent how men had very little power when it came to regeneration in neither plants nor humans.



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