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AdonisIn Greek legend, son of Cinyras and Myrrha, beloved of Aphrodite. When he was killed by a boar, Aphrodite sprinkled nectar on his blood and from it sprang the anemone. Persephone, queen of the shades, refused to give him up to Aphrodite. Zeus, however, settled the dispute by allowing him to spend a third of the year with each goddess in turn, a third being at his own disposal. Adonis appears in poetry as the type of masculine beauty.
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