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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 considered to be the ideal of male beauty in classical antiquity.
The First Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite , which was probably composed sometime in the mid-seventh century BC, [146] describes how Zeus once became annoyed with Aphrodite for causing deities to fall in love with mortals, [146] so he caused her to fall in love with Anchises, a handsome mortal shepherd who lived in the foothills beneath Mount Ida near ...
He was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone, who was famous for having achieved immortality. He was widely considered to be the ideal of male beauty in classical antiquity. The Greeks considered Adonis's cult to be of Near Eastern origin.
Aphrodite goes to Cyprus and bathes. [8] Then she returns to the Troad disguised as a mortal, and finds Anchises alone in a hut. [8] When Anchises first sees Aphrodite, he is convinced that she is a goddess, a grace, or a nymph. [8] She convinces him that she is a Phrygian princess and that Hermes brought her there to marry Anchises. [8]
Ganymede (Γανυμήδης), Trojan hero and lover of Zeus, who was given immortality and appointed cup-bearer to the gods; Hector (Ἕκτωρ), hero of the Trojan War and champion of the Trojan people; Icarus (Ἴκαρος), the son of the master craftsman Daedalus; Iolaus (Ἰόλαος), nephew of Heracles who aided his uncle in one of ...
The mythical scenes depict the goddess of love, Venus, with her mortal lover, Adonis, as well as Hippolytus, son of Theseus, who rejected his stepmother Phaedra’s romantic advances.
The maid Comaetho ruled over the Cilicians. As she approached marriage age, the girl fell in love with the river-god Cydnus and pined for him until the goddess Aphrodite turned her into a spring, presumably in order to unite the two. [3] [4] Thereafter Comaetho was glad to join him in wedlock and mingle her newly-formed waters with those of Cydnus.
Adonis was an exceedingly beautiful mortal man with whom Persephone fell in love. [69] [70] [71] After he was born, Aphrodite entrusted him to Persephone to raise. But when Persephone got a glimpse of the beautiful Adonis—finding him as attractive as Aphrodite did—she refused to give him back to her.