{"title":"Like Golden Aphrodite","authors":"C. Faraone","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197552971.003.0006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that the shorter laments in the Iliad of Briseis in Book 18 and the Trojan women in Book 2, reflect the existence of a hexametrical genre of lament that women sang both in funerals and at the annual celebration of the Adonia, a festival devoted to the mourning, along with Aphrodite, the dead Adonis.","PeriodicalId":110781,"journal":{"name":"Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197552971.003.0006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This chapter argues that the shorter laments in the Iliad of Briseis in Book 18 and the Trojan women in Book 2, reflect the existence of a hexametrical genre of lament that women sang both in funerals and at the annual celebration of the Adonia, a festival devoted to the mourning, along with Aphrodite, the dead Adonis.