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In Greek mythology, Adonis ... According to the retelling of the story found in the poem Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC – AD 17/18), Adonis was the son ...
The myth of Myrrha is closely linked to that of her son, Adonis, which has been easier to trace. Adonis is the Hellenized form of the Phoenician word " adoni ", meaning " my lord ". [ 2 ] It is believed that the cult of Adonis was known to the Greeks from around the sixth century B.C., but it is unquestionable that they became aware of it ...
In addition to Dionysus/Mise, several gods are referred to as "both male and female" or "both female and male" in the Orphic Hymns, including Selene, [74] Athena, [75] and Adonis. [76] In Cyprus and Athens, an aspect of Aphrodite with male genitals and in some cases a beard, called Aphroditos , was worshipped.
Frazer and others also saw Tammuz's Greek equivalent Adonis as a "dying-and-rising god", [205] [204] [220] despite the fact that he is never described as rising from the dead in any extant Greco-Roman writings [221] and the only possible allusions to his supposed resurrection come from late, highly ambiguous statements made by Christian authors.
The Gardens of Adonis (1888) by John Reinhard Weguelin depicts the casting of the gardens of Adonis into the sea at the end of the Adonia. The main feature of the festival at Athens were the "Gardens of Adonis", [12] broken pieces of terracotta which had lettuce and fennel seeds sown in them. [6] These seeds sprouted, but soon withered and died ...
Shakespeare's early erotic poem Venus and Adonis expands on the myth in Book X of the Metamorphoses. [38] In Titus Andronicus, the story of Lavinia's rape is drawn from Tereus' rape of Philomela, and the text of the Metamorphoses is used within the play to enable Titus to interpret his daughter's story. [39]
Compton says one myth may be responsible for the enduring association between pink roses and love. Having been struck by an arrow of love by her son Cupid, Venus fell in love with Adonis.
The Greeks considered Adonis's cult to be of Near Eastern origin. Adonis's name comes from a Canaanite word meaning "lord" and most modern scholars consider the story of Aphrodite and Adonis to be derived from a Levantine version of the earlier Mesopotamian myth of Inanna (Ishtar) and Dumuzid (Tammuz).