1. Carson Ferree and Maddie Arnold ADONIS

2. Adonis Three stories of “deaths and flowery resurrections” Narcissus Hyacinth Adonis Adonis is the most famous of the three

3. Adonis’ Birth Three stories of his birth and parentage Hesiod thought Phoenix and Aephesiboea Apollodorus thought Cinyras and Metharme Incest Myrrha slept with her father and then hid in the woods, Aphrodite turned her into a tree, Theias struck the tree with an arrow and Adonis emerged Myrrha slept with her father and then hid in the woods, Aphrodite turned her into a tree, wild boar tore open tree so Adonis could emerge(death foreshadow) Myrrha slept with her father and became pregnant, father was angry, gods saved her from his wrath by turning her into a tree, Adonis later emerged from the tree

4. Adonis’ Birth

5. Aphrodite and Persephone Aphrodite loved him from the moment he was born She took him to Persephone to care for him Persephone loved him too and didn’t want to give him back

6. Persephone

7. Aphrodite

8. Custody Agreement Spent 1/3 of the year with Aphrodite Spring and Summer Spent 1/3 of the year with Persephone Fall and Winter Spent 1/3 of the year on his own Generally chose to be with Aphrodite Spent ½ of the year with Aphrodite Spent ½ of the year with Persephone Calliope for ZeusZeus

9. Death One day, he went hunting without Aphrodite He tracked a wild boar The animal then killed him Cause? Ares Artemis From his blood sprang the Adonis flower “the Goddess of Love, who pierces with her shafts the hearts of gods and men alike, was fated herself to suffer that same piercing pain”

10. Aphrodite’s Parting Words You die, O thrice desired, And my desire has flown like a dream. Gone with you is girdle of my beauty, But I myself must live who am a goddess And may not follow you. Kiss me yet once again, the last, long kiss Until I draw your soul within my lips And drink down all your love.