Venus and Adonis

Description:

Adonis is a youth of unsurpassed beauty. A hunter. The goddess Venus, sees him and falls madly in love with him. Venus's love becomes boundless and without limit and Adonis rejects her even though she is a beautiful goddess and the goddess of love. And thereby hangs a tale. The story is told through the lamentations of Venus for Adonis's rejection of her love.

subjects: Poetry,  Adonis (Greek deity),  Venus (Roman deity),  Translations into English,  Sources,  Metamorphosis,  Latin Fables,  Classical Mythology,  Mythology,  Biography,  Poetry (poetic works by one author),  Art,  Calligraphy,  Geology,  English poetry,  Printing,  Specimens

People: Lucretia,  William Shakespeare (1564-1616),  Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)