Deity Greek and Roman
Adonis
Ἄδωνις grc
Greek god of beauty and desire
Beauty
Desire
Hunting
Domains on record
Family
The family of Adonis
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 17
Kinship in an account 13
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Alphesiboea character in Greek mythology, mother of Adonis (according to some versions of the myth)
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child of (father) Cinyras mythical founder of the city of Paphos in Greek mythology -
child of (mother) Myrrha daughter of Cinyras in Greek mythology -
child of (father) Phoenix Greek mythological character, son of Agenor and Telephassa, eponym of Phoenicia - child of (father) Theias mythical son of Belus
- parent of (father) Beroe nymph in Greek mythology
- parent of (child) Golgos minor Greek mythological figure
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partner of Aphrodite Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation -
partner of Persephone Greek goddess of the seasons and the queen of the underworld; married with Hades - sibling of Braesia daughter of Cinyras in Greek mythology
- sibling of Laogore daughter of Cinyras in Greek mythology
- sibling of Myrrha daughter of Cinyras in Greek mythology
- sibling of Orsedice daughter of Cinyras in Greek mythology
Family 4
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (child) Cinyras mythical founder of the city of Paphos in Greek mythology
- child of (child) Myrrha daughter of Cinyras in Greek mythology
- child of (child) Phoenix Greek mythological character, son of Agenor and Telephassa, eponym of Phoenicia
- sibling of Myrrha daughter of Cinyras in Greek mythology
Accounts
Where Adonis appears
Each work is its own account. Where two disagree about a parent or a deed, both readings stand.
What this means
Works this figure is recorded as appearing in. Each is an account, not a chapter of one story: where two of them disagree about a parent or a deed, both readings stand and this site keeps the disagreement. The earliest account below is computed from these works, not stated by any source — a fact about which texts this collection holds and when they were written, not a date for the figure, who has none, and not a floor for the tradition, which is older than anything that survives of it.
The earliest account held here Computed
Metamorphoses written c. between 1 and 9 CE
A date for the text, never for the deity.Later works
Later works that name Adonis
Written in 1500 CE or later, and not religious texts: works that retell or borrow the figure, not accounts of it.
What this means
Sorted out of the accounts by each work’s own recorded date on the source clock, and by its record not marking it as a religious text: the split is worked out here, not stated by any source. A religious text of any date stays among the accounts. None of these supplies the earliest account.
Connections
How Adonis connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Attribute 3
What this means
A domain, symbol or epithet as sources record it.
Does not imply an exclusive domain · the same association in every account
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
18 statements on this record
- 9 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 9 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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