Adonis

In Greek mythology, Adonis (; , ) was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone. He was considered to be the ideal of male beauty in classical antiquity.

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Dumuzid, Dumuzi, or Tammuz (; ; ), known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd () and to the Canaanites as Adon (; Proto-Hebrew: 𐤀𐤃𐤍), is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity associated with agriculture and shepherds, who was also the first and primary consort of the goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar). In Sumerian mythology, Dumuzid's sister was Geshtinanna, the goddess of agriculture, fertility, and dream interpretation. In the Sumerian King List, Dumuzid is listed as an antediluvian king of the city of Bad-tibira and also an early king of the city of Uruk.

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poem by William Shakespeare

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painting by Paolo Veronese

53rd of 154 by William Shakespeare

thumb|300px|Celebrating the Adonia: fragment of an Attic red-figure wedding vase, ca. 430–420 BCE

sculpture by Giuseppe Mazzuoli

thumb|1821 title page, Pisa, Italy: Ollier. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. () is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and best-known works. The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in the spring of 1821 immediately after 11 April, when Shelley heard of Keats's death (seven weeks earlier). It is a pastoral elegy, in the English tradition of John Milton's Lycidas. Shelley had studied and translated classical elegies. The title of the poe

opera by John Blow

painting by Peter Paul Rubens

painting series by Titian and his workshop

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painting by Nicolas Poussin at Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany

In ancient Greek and Roman mythology, Erinoma () or Erinona () is a beautiful maiden who attracted the attention of both Zeus and Adonis, as well as the wrath of Hera and Aphrodite. Her story seems to be a local variant of Adonis's myth originating from the island of Cyprus, and survives only in the late works of Servius, a Latin grammarian who lived during the early fifth century AD.

Adon () literally means "lord." Adon has an uncertain etymology, although it is generally believed to be derived from the Ugaritic ad, “father.”

painting by Nicolas Poussin

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'''''L'Adone''' (Adonis) is an epic poem in Italian by Giovan Battista Marino, first published in Paris in 1623 by Olivier de Varennes (1598-1666) and dedicated to Louis XIII. It tells the love story of Venus and the eponymous Adonis and with 5,124 ottave and 40,992 verses is one of the longest poems in Italian literature - it is slightly longer than Orlando furioso and around three times as long as the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme liberata''.

painting by Titian