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thumb|300px|Celebrating the Adonia: fragment of an Attic red-figure wedding vase, ca. 430–420 BCE

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  • Athenian festival
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  • 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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