Adonis

A beautiful young man shared by Persephone and Aphrodite. Artemis causes him to be killed by a boar.

Genealogy

Alphesiboea, Metharme, Smyrna

Cinyras, Phoenix, Thias

Persephone (foster-mother)

Braesia, Europa, Laogore, Orsedice, Oxyporus, Smyrna

Places
  1. Assyria
  2. Mount Olympus
  3. Unknown
Events
  1. Smyrna, in the form of a tree, gives birth to Adonis
  2. Aphrodite gives Adonis to Persephone to care for
  3. Persephone refuses to give Adonis back to Aphrodite
  4. Zeus divides Adonis’s year by thirds
  5. Adonis chooses to live two-thirds of the year with Aphrodite
  6. Adonis is gored by a boar while hunting and dies
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 3.3
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 14.3
  3. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 14.4
  4. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 20.6
  5. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 24.7
  6. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 16.4
  7. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 29.8
  8. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 41.2
  9. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 41.3
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