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In Greek mythology, Adonis (Ancient Greek: Ἄδωνις, romanized: Adōnis; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤃𐤍, romanized: Adón) was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone. He was famous and considered to be the ideal of male beauty in classical antiquity.
Persephone greeted Adonis with arms wide open as he entered the underworld and her delight knew no bounds. At the same time, Aphrodite, knowing that her Adonis must be in the clutches of Persephone, rushed to the underworld to bring him back.
Adonis and Aphrodite tells the beautiful, but sad story of the most famous of Aphrodite's love affairs - with the handsome mortal Adonis.
In another variation, Persephone met Adonis only after he had been slain by a boar; Aphrodite descended into the Underworld to take him back. But Persephone, smitten with him, would not let him go until they came to an agreement that Adonis would alternate between the land of the living and the land of the dead each year.
22 sie 2024 · Adonis, in Greek mythology, a youth of remarkable beauty, the favourite of the goddess Aphrodite (identified with Venus by the Romans). Traditionally, he was the product of the incestuous love Smyrna (Myrrha) entertained for her own father, the Syrian king Theias.
Away from the Underworld Persephone also appears in the story of Adonis, for Aphrodite gave the chest containing the infant Adonis to look after. Persephone fell in love with the youth though, and when Aphrodite came to retrieve Adonis, Persephone refused to give him up.
21 lut 2016 · Adonis was a very beautiful young man in Greek mythology, who was a lover of the goddess Aphrodite. He was the object of a fight between Aphrodite and Persephone and ended up spending four months with Persephone in the underworld and eight months with Aphrodite on earth, symbolizing the seasons. What does Adonis mean?
