A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 439
oved by Venus (Aphrodite).He was wounded in the chaseby a boar so that he died.The anemone sprung from hisblood. Venus so mourned hisdeath that the gods of thelower world allowed him topass six months of each yearwith her on earth. His deathand return were celebrated bygames called Adonia in… … I Death of Adonis. (Painting from Pompeii). ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 421 gos by Amphiaraus, he fled to Polybus of Sicyon, to wliose throne hesucceeded. He established the Nemean games ; was reconciled toAmphiaraus and returned to Argos; married his daughter Deipyieto Tydeus of Calydon, and Argia to…
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