Category:Adonis
Articles relating to Adonis, his cult, and his depictions. He was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone, who was famous for having achieved immortality. He was widely considered to be the ideal of male beauty in classical antiquity. The Greeks considered Adonis's cult to be of Near Eastern origin. Adonis's name comes from a Canaanite word meaning "lord" and most modern scholars consider the story of Aphrodite and Adonis to be derived from a Levantine version of the earlier Mesopotamian myth of Inanna (Ishtar) and Dumuzid (Tammuz).
Pages in category "Adonis"
The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Androgynous and hermaphroditic deities
- Beauty gods
- Consorts of Aphrodite
- Consorts of Dionysus
- Cypriot mythology
- Greco-Roman mysteries
- Greek gods
- Hellenistic Asian deities
- Immortality
- Killed deities
- Levantine mythology
- LGBT themes in Greek mythology
- Life-death-rebirth gods
- Male lovers of Apollo
- Male lovers of Heracles
- Mercurian deities
- Metamorphoses characters
- Metamorphoses into flowers in Greek mythology
- Phoenician mythology