Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis are a famous antique lovers.

Adonis is so beautiful that Venus herself in love with him. To the young man grew up, Adonis was killed on the hunt of a boar (according to other sources by the jealous Mars in the form of a boar ). Heartbroken over the loss of her lover, Venus leaves sprouting from his blood a flower, the Adonis. Part of the year spends Adonis from now on in the realm of Persephone in the Underworld, the other part of the year as a flower in the land of the living. The story is found u a. in Ovid.

In the numerous representations of the visual arts of the moment is usually chosen to hold in the Venus Adonis of the fatal hunting investigated.

There are numerous other adaptations in literature and music, for example:

  • Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare), narrative poem by William Shakespeare ( 1593);
  • Venus and Adonis ( Blow), opera by John Blow ( 1681)
  • Venus and Adonis ( Pepusch ), opera by Johann Christoph Pepusch (18th century)
  • Venus and Adonis ( Henze ), opera by Hans Werner Henze (1997)
Classical antiquity Proserpina Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem) Venus and Adonis (opera) Venus und Adonis
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