CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Like Minds, Kouros, Croesus

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Adonis was one of aphrodite"s loves, they were both equal in beauty. Born out of incest between kinryas and his daughter myrrha: kinryas want to consummate the relationship sexually. Myrrha is transformed into a tree when she begs the gods to free her from her father"s murderous intent: from the tree adonis was born. This is one of the ways that the greeks symbolize being born again and the idea of ressurection. Adonis is very beautiful and has a love affair with aphrodite. Adonis"s death is the first example of the association between tragedy and young love: adonis brags to aphrodite about his hunting skill and his killed by a boar on his first hunting trial. He was gored in his testicles and bled out. As adonis dies aphrodite holds him in her arms and while crying where. Adonis"s blood spills on the ground aphrodites grief/ tears turns into the.