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

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