The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology - Second EditionRich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. The author challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis whose premature death was mourned by women and whose resurrection marked a joyous occasion represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. Using the