Adonis

Family: gods · Role: son of Cinyras · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.3

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Adonis)

Adonis was born when a tree burst open ten months after Smyrna; Cinyras and Metharme are given as his parents, while Hesiod instead names Phoenix and Alphesiboea. Aphrodite hid him in a chest unknown to the gods and entrusted him to Persephone, and she was associated with him as a suitor “whom she had twitted with her love of Adonis.”

His time was divided so that he stayed by himself for one part of the year, with Persephone for another, and with Aphrodite for the remainder. While still a boy, Adonis was wounded and killed by a boar during a hunt through the anger of Artemis.

Relationship record

Life events

• Adonis was wounded and killed by a boar during a hunt.(Apollodorus, Library 3.14)
  • With: Artemis
  • “And Adonis, while still a boy, was wounded and killed in hunting by a boar through the anger of Artemis.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.3

• admirer: Aphrodite “whom she had twitted with her love of Adonis”

Apollodorus, Library 3.14

• parent: Cinyras “he begat Oxyporus and Adonis, and besides them daughters, Orsedice, Laogore, and Braesia.”
• parent: Metharme “he begat Oxyporus and Adonis, and besides them daughters, Orsedice, Laogore, and Braesia.”
• guardian: Aphrodite “Aphrodite hid in a chest unknown to the gods and entrusted to Persephone.”
• guardian: Persephone “Aphrodite hid in a chest unknown to the gods and entrusted to Persephone.”
• parent: Phoenix “Hesiod, however, affirms that he was a son of Phoenix and Alphesiboea”
• parent: Alphesiboea “Hesiod, however, affirms that he was a son of Phoenix and Alphesiboea”
• with Artemis (Adonis was killed in a hunt through Artemis's anger.) “Adonis, while still a boy, was wounded and killed in hunting by a boar through the anger of Artemis”
• parent: Smyrna “Ten months afterwards the tree burst and Adonis, as he is called, was born”
• admirer: Aphrodite “for the sake of his beauty, while he was still an infant, Aphrodite hid in a chest”
• with Aphrodite (Adonis stayed with Aphrodite for part of the year.) “the year was divided into three parts, and the god ordained that Adonis should stay by himself for one part of the year, with Persephone for one part, and with Aphrodite for the remainder”
• with Persephone (Adonis stayed with Persephone for part of the year.) “with Persephone for one part”

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