Adonis

Adonis in Wikipedia

Adonis (Greek aδωνις lord), is a figure with West Semitic antecedents, where he is a central cult figure in various mystery religions, who entered Greek mythology. He is closely related to the Cypriot Gauas[1] or Aos, Egyptian Osiris, the Semitic Tammuz and Baal Hadad, the Etruscan Atunis and the Phrygian Attis, all of whom are deities of reb...

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Adonis in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*)/Adwnis), according to Apollodorus (3.14.3) a son of Cinyras and Medarme, according to Hesiod (apud Apollod. 3.14.4) a son of Phoenix and Alphesiboea, and according to the cyclic poet Panyasis (apud Apollod. l.c.) a son of Theias, king of Assyria, who begot him by his own daughter Smyrna. (Myrrha.) The ancient story ran thus : Smyrna had n...

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