Adonia
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Celebrating the Adonia: fragment of an Attic red-figure wedding vase, ca. 430–420 BCE
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Vinony files it under Adonis, Annual events in Athens and Culture of ancient Greece.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Ancient Greece
- commemorates
- Adonis
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- Athenian festival
- Date
- Gardens of Adonis
- Purposes of the Gardens
- Outside Athens
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thumb|300px|Celebrating the Adonia: fragment of an Attic red-figure wedding vase, ca. 430–420 BCE
The Adonia (Greek: ) was a festival celebrated annually by women in ancient Greece to mourn the death of Adonis, the consort of Aphrodite. It is best attested in classical Athens, though other sources provide evidence for the ritual mourning of Adonis elsewhere in the Greek world, including Hellenistic Alexandria and Argos in the second century CE.
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