Adonis

Reading notes

• The Loves §3.9 savage boar

  The boar that gored Adonis, the youth beloved of Venus — her grief for him is the measure of her grief for Tibullus.

• The Art of Love §1.3 Adonis

  Beautiful youth loved by Venus and killed by a boar, mourned in an annual women's festival.

• The Heroides §4 the son of Cinyras

  Adonis, son of Cinyras, the beautiful youth loved by Venus; another exemplum of love amid the wild.

• The Festivals §5.2 son of Cinyras

  Adonis, beloved of Venus, from whose blood sprang the anemone.

• Metamorphoses §10.310 Adonis

  Son of Myrrha by her father Cinyras, the beautiful youth beloved of Venus and killed by a boar.