Aphrodite+and+Adonis

Nikitta and Patricia

Summary for Aphrodite's love for Adonis
 * Aphrodite was toying with her son Cupid’s arrows one day and scratched herself
 * Ø Before the wound healed she beheld a handsome Asia Minor named Adonis and fell in love with him.
 * Shortly after she started spending more and more time with him.
 * She joined him on all his hunts and neglected her ordinary pursuits.
 * She warned him to be cautious so he was not to be killed by a beast.
 * Adonis did not heed her warning and was careless when a ferocious boar stampeded towards him.
 * The boar killed Adonis and Aphrodite mourned for him.
 * The inhabitants of that region renewed her mourning for him in a sacred festival
 * Zues lets Adonis come back for six months to dwell with Aphrodite as her husband
 * During these six months summer dwells on the Earth
 * In another story P ersphone took care of him until he was older.
 * Aphrodite came to get him and Persephone did not want to give Adonis up
 * Zues had to come in and gave Persephone one third of the year to Persephone, Aphrodite, and to whom ever he wanted
 * Adonis then spent one third of the year with Persephone and two thirds of the year with Aphrodite.
 * From the third bullet down on the other versin is the same

Art Work This art work shows Aphrodite with Adonis while he is hunting. It also shows how much Aphrodite loved Adonis.

Modern References  The movie Cinderella can be tied to these lovers Aphrodite and Adonis. The stepsisters and Cinderella both wanted the Prince. Later Cinderella got the Prince. Just like Aphrodite got Adonis