Adonis
Published in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History • Oct 26, 2012
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Authors:
J. D. Reed
Abstract
Abstract In Greek and Roman mythology, a mortal favorite or lover of Aphrodite/Venus. He and the ritual lament for him, the Adonia, are most plausibly derived from the Mesopotamian Tammuz via West Semitic speakers, as his name–from adon , “lord”–suggests (Burkert 1979: 105–8).