Venus and Adonis
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Venus and Adonis are famous lovers in Roman mythology .
Roman myth
The youth Adonis is so beautiful that even the goddess of love Venus falls in love with him. Grown up into a young man, Adonis is killed by a boar while hunting (according to other sources by the jealous Ares or Mars in the form of a boar). Inconsolable at the loss of her lover, Venus lets a flower sprout from his blood, the Adonis rose . From now on Adonis spends part of the year in the realm of Proserpine in the underworld, the other part of the year as a flower in the realm of the living.
Adaptations in literature and the fine arts
The myth of Venus and Adonis found its best known form in Ovid. The story has been taken up and worked on many times, especially by Shakespeare .
In the visual arts , the moment is usually chosen when Venus tries to deter Adonis from the fateful hunt. While Cupid sleeps in the background of the picture with Titian , he allies himself in the depiction of Rubens with Venus and tries to hold Adonis. A well-known depiction by Rubens also shows Venus mourning the dead Adonis.
See also
- Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare) , story by William Shakespeare (1593);
- Venus and Adonis (Blow) , opera by John Blow (1681)
- The beloved Adonis , opera by Reinhard Keizer (1697)
- Venus and Adonis (Pepusch) , opera by Johann Christoph Pepusch (18th century)
- Venus and Adonis (Henze) , opera by Hans Werner Henze (1997)
literature
- Lars Olof Larsson : Simon Vouet: Venus and Adonis , in: Ancient myths in art. 100 masterpieces . Stuttgart: Reclam, 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-018592-6 , pp. 136f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ovid , Metamorphoses 10.520-524
- ↑ Ovid, metamorphoses from 10.710 to 716; Libraries of Apollodorus 3,14,4
- ↑ Nonnos , Dionysiaka 41, 209-211
- ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses 10, 717-739
