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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.
10 mar 2023 · Adonis was also connected to fertility and vegetation, and despite his mortal origins, he was widely worshipped as a god by the ancient Greeks. Because his mother Myrrha was the original myrrh tree, Adonis was strongly associated with myrrh, as well as anemone, myrtle, and the rose.
Adonis (gr. Ἄδωνις Adōnis, łac. Adonis) – postać mitologii greckiej, w starożytności podmiot czci boskiej i kultu religijnego, piękny młodzieniec, ulubieniec Afrodyty. Według Hezjoda (ok. 701 r. p.n.e.) był synem Fojniksa i Alfesibei.
22 sie 2024 · Adonis, in Greek mythology, a youth of remarkable beauty, the favorite 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.
25 wrz 2020 · READ MORE: Aphrodite Family Tree: A Family of the Greek Goddess of Love. Adonis in Classical Literature and Art. Various Classical writers re-tell Adonis’ story, focusing on his relationship with the various goddesses as well as his tragic end. Ovid’s version, captured in his Metamorphoses, is perhaps the most famous.
Adonis was birthed from a myrrh tree, which was his transformed mother. Persephone, the goddess of the underworld, raised him. As an adult, Adonis spent two-thirds of the year with Aphrodite and one-third with Persephone.
Sensing Myrrha's necessity, Aphrodite transformed her into a tree, the myrrh tree. Still in anger, Theias shot an arrow into the tree trunk, splitting it wide open and it was from there that Adonis was born, the child of an awful union between a father and his daughter.
