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We had material in two places word-for-word the same on the Gardens. I've placed this at the end, and combined it. I've also dropped a reference to Plutarch's "Nicias", because in fact that work does NOT discuss the gardens at all, nor the discarding of little images.
I happened to look up a lot of ancient evidence about the Adonia this evening, and consult Dillon; I'm trying to render the article somewhat more encyclopediac than it is at the moment. Roger Pearse (talk) 00:40, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"Adonic feasts"
"Adonic feasts"? This phrase is vanishingly rare on Google. I think it should be taken out of the leading sentence unless there's a good source for it. If a literal translation of "Adonia" is wanted, I suggest "festival of Adonis". Andrew Dalby 20:03, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Brewer's Citation
Someone smarter than me might want to add this to the mix:
"An eight-day feast of Adonis, celebrated in Assyria, Alexandria, Egypt, Judea, Persia, Cyprus, Greece, and Rome. The women first lamented the death of Adonis then wildly rejoiced at his resurrection- a custom referred to in the Bible (Ezek viii, 14), where Adonis appears under his Phoenician name, Tammuz."
- Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Centenary Edition) John Mark Wagnon (talk) 19:05, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The identification of Adonis with Tammuz appears to be unproven and dubious: Detienne's Gardens of Adonis says "Eshmun or Tammuz[...] have sometimes been suggested as the Near-Eastern models for Adonis"; Yamauchi's "Tammuz and the Bible", "Writing back in 1911, Lewis Farnell was aware that the identification of Adonis with Tammuz was a tenuous one". If we have a scholarly source making this connection, it may be worth including, but I can't find anything on a cursory search... Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 19:36, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
