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  2. Adonis - Wikipedia

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    [37] [32] Adonis chose Aphrodite, and they remained constantly together. [32] Another version states that both goddesses got to keep him for half the year each at the suggestion of the Muse Calliope. [38] Thus was Adonis' life divided between Aphrodite and Persephone, one goddess who loved him beneath the earth, the other above it. [39]

  3. Myrrha - Wikipedia

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    [q] The reference is justified in the way that it draws inspiration from Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses, just like his previously written poem, Venus and Adonis, did. [57] The tragedy Mirra by Vittorio Alfieri (written in 1786) is inspired by the story of Myrrha. In the play, Mirra falls in love with her father, Cinyras.

  4. Metamorphoses in Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    Aphrodite made both Zeus and Adonis to fall in love with Erinoma, a Cypriot girl who preferred chastity over men. Adonis, after failing to win her affections, entered her bedroom with Aphrodite's help and raped her. Artemis then transformed her into a peahen, but later restored her to her previous human form. Erodius ("heron") Heron: Apollo and ...

  5. Erinoma - Wikipedia

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    Once in the open, Zeus struck Adonis with a lightning bolt, killing him. Aphrodite complained about the murder and greatly lamented Adonis's passing. Hermes then brought back Adonis's shade to his people, but he was only fully restored to life by Zeus when Hera requested so. Artemis, meanwhile, restored the peahen Erinoma back to her human form ...

  6. Aphrodite - Wikipedia

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    The Muse Clio derided the goddess' own love for Adonis. Therefore, Clio fell in love with Pierus, son of Magnes and bore Hyacinth. [201] Aegiale was a daughter of Adrastus and Amphithea and was married to Diomedes. Because of anger of Aphrodite, whom Diomedes had wounded in the war against Troy, she had multiple lovers, including a certain ...

  7. List of Metamorphoses characters - Wikipedia

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    A month later the tree gave birth to Adonis. X: 317-476 [161] Myscelus: Son of Alemon and founder of Crotona. XV: 19-47 [162] Narcissus: Son of Liriope. He fell in love with his own reflection and wasted away until death. When he died he was metamorphosed into the plant of the same name. III: 346-413 [163] Neptunus: God of the sea and waters ...

  8. Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem) - Wikipedia

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    Title page of the first quarto (1593). Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare's first publication. The poem tells the story of Venus, the goddess of Love; of her unrequited love; and of her attempted seduction of Adonis, an extremely handsome young man, who would rather go hunting.

  9. Necklace of Harmonia - Wikipedia

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    Polynices offering Eriphyle the necklace of Harmonia; Attic red-figure oenochoe ca. 450–440 BC. Louvre museum. The Necklace of Harmonia, also called the Necklace of Eriphyle, was a fabled object in Greek mythology that, according to legend, brought great misfortune to all of its wearers or owners, who were primarily queens and princesses of the ill-fated House of Thebes.