Carson Ferree and Maddie Arnold ADONIS. Adonis Three stories of “deaths and flowery...
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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
