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Atlantic Celts: Ancient People of Modern Invention Paperback - 2016 - 1st Edition

by Simon James


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Ancient sources and modern scholars have often represented the Athenian festival of Adonis as a marginal and faintly ridiculous private women's ritual. Seeds were planted each year in pots and, once sprouted, carried to the rooftops, where women lamented the death of Aphrodite's youthful consort Adonis. Laurialan Reitzammer resourcefully examines a wide array of surviving evidence about the Adonia, arguing for its symbolic importance in fifth- and fourth-century Athenian culture as an occasion for gendered commentary on mainstream Athenian practices.
Reitzammer uncovers correlations of the Adonia to Athenian wedding rituals and civic funeral oration and provides illuminating evidence that the festival was a significant cultural template for such diverse works as Aristophanes' drama Lysistrata and Plato's dialogue Phaedrus. Her fresh approach is a timely contribution to studies of the ways gender and sexuality intersect with religion and ritual in ancient Greece.

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The Celtic peoples of the British Isles hold a fundamental place in our national consciousness. In this book Simon James surveys ancient and modern ideas of the Celts and challenges them in the light of revolutionary new thinking on the Iron Age peoples of Britain. Examining how ethnic and national identities are constructed, he presents an alternative history of the British Isles, proposing that the idea of insular Celtic identity is really a product of the rise of nationalism in the eighteenth century. He considers whether the 'Celticness' of the British Isles is a romantic fantasy, even a politically dangerous falsification of history which has implications in the current debate on devolution and self-government for the Celtic regions.

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  • Title Atlantic Celts: Ancient People of Modern Invention
  • Author Simon James
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI
  • Date 2016-05-11
  • ISBN 9780299166748 / 0299166740
  • Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.54 x 5.38 x 0.52 in (21.69 x 13.67 x 1.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Celtic
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - History - To 1066 -, Celts - Great Britain - Historiography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99038125
  • Dewey Decimal Code 936.100
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