Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Adonis.
In play
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Venus and Adonis
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's narrative poem made Adonis the reluctant beloved of Venus — the boar's victim as Elizabethan erotic elegy.
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Adonis
English still calls a strikingly handsome man an Adonis — the dying beloved turned into a compliment.
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Adonis (plant)
The anemone-like Adonis flower keeps his blood in the spring garden — the youth's wound as a genus of buttercups.