god
Adonis
also: Ἄδωνις, Ἄδωνιν
Aphrodite's beautiful young consort, killed by a boar and mourned annually by women in the Adonia festival. Sappho's dirge (fr. 140) and cry (fr. 168) are the earliest surviving Greek of that rite.
Reading notes
- Fragments of Uncertain Book, with the Epigrams and Dubia §140 Adonis
The beautiful young consort of Aphrodite, killed by a boar and mourned annually by women in the Adonia; this fragment is the earliest surviving Greek of that ritual lament, and fr. 168 preserves its bare cry.