Not understanding this, however, he praises her, saying: “Always be so loving.” At the word “loving”, the girl, lowers her glance, conscious of her sin. She was among the recent ghosts, and walked haltingly from her wound. 12. "Butes, son of Teleon, though diverted by the singing and lyre of Orpheus [when the Argonauts encountered the Seirenes], neverthless was overcome by the sweetness of the Sirens' song, and in an effort to swim to them threw himself into the sea. She felt ready to die. Alas for me, that I did not happen to be born there, and that I am made to suffer by an accident of place! You would think them capable of running along the waves without wetting them, and passing over the ripened heads of the standing corn. Poor Hippomenes, I wish you had never seen me! These Nymphai shall keep my son with them and rear him, and as soon as he is come to lovely boyhood, the goddesses will bring him here to you and show you your child. But my unwonted toil has made me tired and, look, a poplar, happily at hand, drops shade for our delight, and greensward gives a couch. Although the tale of Adonis has Semitic roots, it is uncertain from where the myth of Myrrha emerged, though it was likely from Cyprus. Orpheus wished and prayed, in vain, to cross the Styx again, but the ferryman fended him off. . Translation. The destiny of your house is fortunate, and on course: they are well, your mother and father.”. And Apollon brought her to the rock of Leukade and ordered her to throw herself from the top of the rock; she did so and was freed from her love. Because of his beauty, Aphrodite secreted him away in a chest, keeping it from the gods, and left him with Persephone. Him she clung to, he was her constant companion. But, that I may tell you all that I have in mind, I will come here again towards the fifth year and bring you my son. Which of the following is the source for Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet? Though she has lost her former senses with her body, she still weeps, and the warm drops trickle down from the tree. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : 69d (trans. "And Kythereia [Aphrodite] with the beautiful crown was joined in sweet love with the hero Ankhises and bare Aeneas on the peaks of Ida with its many wooded glens. So she spake. I will make you an altar upon a high peak in a far seen place, and will sacrifice rich offerings to you at all seasons. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) : 21- 23 (trans. The sacred images averted their gaze, and the Great Mother, with the turreted crown, hesitated as to whether to plunge the guilty pair beneath the waters of the Styx: but the punishment seemed too light. Other sources not currently quoted here: Virgil Aeneid 2.467 & 606. While Adonis was still a boy, because of Artemis' anger he was wounded by a boar during a hunt and died. © Copyright 2000-2021 A. S. Kline, All Rights Reserved. I speak of terrible things. So also golden-throned Eos rapt away Tithonos who was of your race . At this the tree split open, and, from the torn bark, gave up its living burden, and the child cried. But I beseech you by Zeus and by your noble parents--for no base folk could get such a son as you--take me now, stainless and unproved in love, and show me to your father and careful mother and to your brothers sprung from the same stock. . And the time will come, when Ajax, bravest of heroes, will associate himself with this same flower, and be identified by its petals. Adonis, son of Cinyras and Smyrna, whom Venus [Aphrodite] loved. 108 ff (trans. This agricultural-based cult promised its initiates passage to a blessed afterlife. Persephone, Athenian red-figure bell krater C5th B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art PERSEPHONE was the goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god Haides (Hades). But when he saw her face and her unclothed body, one like mine, Adonis, or like yours if you were a woman, he was stunned. "Venus und Adonis" - die Uraufführung eines Shakespeare-Stückes. ", Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 34 (trans. The day of Venus’s festival came, celebrated throughout Cyprus, and heifers, their curved horns gilded, fell, to the blow on their snowy neck. 400 ff : In waters there is Venus [Aphrodite] said to have laved her beauteous lover, there to have gone about with dishevelled hair. ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 6. Venus [Aphrodite] saved him at Lilybaeum, as he was borne along by the waves. ", Ovid, Metamorphoses 10. and made a guardian (daimon) of her temple. Cytherea, carried in her light chariot through the midst of the heavens, by her swans’ swiftness, had not yet reached Cyprus: she heard from afar the groans of the dying boy, and turned the white birds towards him. Let him look out for himself! "A rumbling argument arose in heaven, the gods all grumbling why others should not be allowed to grant such gifts [the rejuvenating gift of the goddess Hebe] . You need fear no harm from me nor from the other blessed ones, for you are dear to the gods: and you shall have a dear son who shall reign among the Trojans, and children's children after him, springing up continually. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. 7 : It chanced his hounds, hot on a well-marked scent, put up a boar, lying hidden in the woods, and as it broke away Cinyreius [Adonis] speared it--a slanting hit--and quick with its curved snout the savage beast dislodged the bloody point, and charged Adonis as he ran in fear for safety, and sank its tusks deep in his groin and stretched him dying on the yellow sand. Translation Spell check Synonyms Conjugation More It is said that each year the tree weeps tears from the wood as its fruit. "As they [the Argonautoi] sailed past the Seirenes, Orpheus kept the Argonautoi in check by singing a song that offset the effect of the sisters' singing. And Aphrodite, the daughter of Zeus stood before him, being like a pure maiden in height and mien, that he should not be frightened when he took heed of her with his eyes. And Meleager was on fire for Arcadian Atalanta: she had the wild boar’s hide as a token of his love. No one will refuse to have you, and you may be chosen by a wiser girl. BOUTES (Butes) A lord of Attika (southern Greece) and one of the Argonauts. 420 ff (trans. 141 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. N.B. My father, Phoebus, loved you above all others: and Delphi, at the centre of the world, lost its presiding deity, while the god frequented Eurotas, and Sparta without its walls, doing no honour to the zither or the bow. 67. . 32 (trans. In theory, Dumas and Venus are a match made in heaven. She often tries to confess, and often stops herself, and hides her face, in shame, in her clothing: then gets as far as “Mother, you are happy in your husband!” and sighs. 181 (trans. It was flesh! And he said that I should be called the wedded wife of Ankhises, and should bear you goodly children. She found it in Argos, a town of Kypros, in the sanctuary of Apollon Erithios and ‘l'emporta’ after having told Apollon in confidence the secret of her love for Adonis. 1 ff : "Venus und Adonis" handelt von einer Frau, die lieben möchte, - Hunting he loved, but love he laughed to scorn. 13A (trans. Translation Dictionary English Dictionary French English English French Spanish English English Spanish: Portuguese English English Portuguese German English English German Dutch English English Dutch O how often, when she could have overtaken him, she lingered, and watching his face for a while, left him behind against her will! So tawny manes spread over their necks, that, a moment ago, were smooth; their fingers curved into claws; forelegs were formed from arms; all their weight was in their breast; and their tails swept the surface of the sand. She warned Adonis too, if warnings could have been of any use, to fear those beasts. He is a god well known in the world above, though I do not know if it is so here: though I do imagine him to be here, as well, and if the story of that rape in ancient times is not a lie, you also were wedded by Amor. Edition: Venus and Adonis; Venus and Adonis (Modern) Texts of this edition. What was there Phoebus did not say, in solace, advising a moderate grief matching the cause! The repetition also stresses how important these organs are to Venus. * From the same root also evidently comes the epithet Architis, as applied to the Venus that wept for Adonis. – Yet why this concern when so many have already died before you? Now she reaches the threshold of the room, now she opens the door, now is led inside. This page describes Aphrodite's sexual liaisons with mortal men. The love-story of Aphrodite and Phaon is also depicted in Athenian vase paintings from the C5th B.C. . . When, from the heights, she saw the lifeless body, lying in its own blood, she leapt down, tearing her clothes, and tearing at her hair, as well, and beat at her breasts with fierce hands, complaining to the fates. 69b-d (trans. What you are striving to know, is wickedness.” The old woman shuddered, and stretching out her hands that trembled with age and fear, she fell at her foster-child’s feet, pleading, then coaxing, then frightening her, into making her party to it. Venus and Adonis appeared in print before any of Shakespeare's plays were published, but not before some of his plays had been acted on stage. For in that plant, the story goes, Kypris [Aphrodite], once laid out Adonis when he died; therefore it is dead men's food.’ And Kratinos [comic poet C6th B.C.] Way) (Greek epic C4th A.D.) : Nine months later the tree split open and the baby named Adonis was born. Such is the tale told by Hesiod, among others, in his poem on women.". Venus and Adonis, 725-26.his thigh that naked was thinking to kiss alas.Renaissance poets like Antonio Minturno and Metello Tarchagnota wrote epigrams on the subject. I should like to rest here on the ground,” (and she rested) “with you.” She hugged the grass, and him, and leaning her head against the breast of the reclining youth, she spoke these words, interspersing them with kisses:’, ‘ “Perhaps you have heard of a girl who beat the fastest men at running: that was no idle tale, she did win. The gods took pity on her and changed her into the tree called the Smyrna. ‘Venus and Adonis’ story, into an almost twelve-hundred-line poem clearly stretches the narrative, but Shakespeare does not extend the story in an even manner. "He [Ptolemy Hephaestion] then pretends that the sense of the passage discussed by Euphorion in his Hyakinthia, ‘Only Kokytos [a river of the underworld] washed the wounds of Adonis,’ was as follows : Kokytos was the name of a pupil to whom Kheiron had taught medicine and who cared for Adonis when he was wounded by the wild boar. “Thrice fairer than myself,” thus she began, “The field’s chief flower, sweet above compare, Stain … There is merit, also, in the tears: and the myrrh that drips from the bark keeps its mistress’s name, and, about it, no age will be silent.’. Pearse) (Greek mythographer C1st to C2nd A.D.) : Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 2 (summary from Photius, Myriobiblon 190) : Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 5 (summary from Photius, Myriobiblon 190) : Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 1 (summary from Photius, Myriobiblon 190) : Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 7 (summary from Photius, Myriobiblon 190) : Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 58 (trans. "And Kratinos comic poet C6th B.C.] ", Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 14 (trans. She bore him two sons Aeneas and Lyros. I ask this benefit as a gift; but, if the fates refuse my wife this kindness, I am determined not to return: you can delight in both our deaths.’. She carried him off to Italia as her lover and bore a son, Eryx. Cenchreis, the king’s wife was among the crowd, frequenting the sacred rites. So comes it, then, that I well know you tongue also. Among the crowd came the cypress, formed like the cone-shaped meta, that marks the turning point in the race-course: once a boy, but now a tree: loved by the god who tunes the lyre, and strings the bow. Thias, father of Smyrna, did away with himself for this unlawful act. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : Then Aphrodite the daughter of Zeus answered him : ‘Ankhises, most glorious of mortal men, take courage and be not too fearful in your heart. As for my own self, let me live long and happily, seeing the light of the sun, and come to the threshold of old age, a man prosperous among the people.’ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2. Then he uttered winged words and entreated her : ‘So soon as ever I saw you with my eyes, goddess, I knew that you were divine; but you did not tell me truly. Envy herself would praise his looks; for like the little naked Amores (Loves) that pictures show he lay there, give or take the slender bow. Not satisfied with this alone, Phoebus (he, indeed, was the giver of the honour) himself marked his grief on the petals, and the flower bore the letters AI AI, the letters of woe traced there. 3. "[Ankhises appears to have been associated with the cult of Aphrodite in Orkhomenos :] There still remains the road leading to Orkhomenos, on which are Mount Ankhisia and the tomb of Ankhises at the foot of the mountain. For while the boy, Cupid, with quiver on shoulder, was kissing his mother, he innocently scratched her breast with a loose arrow. Venus andAdonis Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem based on “Venus and Adonis” from Book X of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. She holds him, and is his companion, and though she is used to always idling in the shade, and, by cultivating it, enhancing her beauty, she roams mountain ridges, and forests, and thorny cliff-sides, her clothing caught up to the knee, like Diana. The lover is stupefied, and joyful, but uncertain, and afraid he is wrong, reaffirms the fulfilment of his wishes, with his hand, again, and again. PHAETHON An Athenian lord, son of the goddess Eos and her motal love Kephalos, who was carried off by Aphrodite to Syria. Now he addresses it with compliments, now brings it gifts that please girls, shells and polished pebbles, little birds, and many-coloured flowers, lilies and tinted beads, and the Heliades’s amber tears, that drip from the trees. When she had so spoken, the goddess put sweet desire in his heart. While you can, stranger, leave this blood-soaked marrying. It was noon of a summer’s day, when the curving claws of shore-loving Cancer were burning in the hot sun. to 2nd A.D.) : Hippomenes had taken his seat as a spectator at the unjust contest, and said ‘Who would try for a wife at such a risk?’ condemning the young men for their excess of passion. What else could it be? While Hippomenes was debating with himself like this, the virgin girl sped by on winged feet. He is worth loving, but only as a father. "She [Aphrodite] loved a shepherd [Ankhises] and amid his flocks gave herself, a goddess, to him; their armour was witnessed by the band of sister Hamadryades as well as the Sileni and the father of the company himself [Silenos], with whom were Naiads gathering apples in the vales of Ida.". They entered it, and desecrated the sanctuary, with forbidden intercourse. The story of Phaon is similar to that of Adonis.]. Then the goddess of love flies up into the air and leaves Adonis alone. ‘But why, in this competition, is my luck left untested?’ he says. Nor was Sparta ashamed of producing Hyacinthus: his honour has lasted to this day, and by ancient custom the Hyacinthia is celebrated, at its annual return, by displaying the flower in procession.’. We too could soon be numbered in this throng! [N.B. That son of his grandfather, sister, now hid in a tree, and now born, then a most beautiful child, then a boy, now a man, now more beautiful than he was before, now interests Venus herself, and avenges his mother’s desire. Then, pitying Lucina stood beside the branches in their pain and laid her hands upon them and pronounced the words of birth. By him she conceived Aeneas, but she warned him not to reveal it to anyone. While she was still speaking, the soil covered her shins; roots, breaking from her toes, spread sideways, supporting a tall trunk; her bones strengthened, and in the midst of the remaining marrow, the blood became sap; her arms became long branches; her fingers, twigs; her skin, solid bark. What if he is fourth in line from the ruler of the seas? Wife and bed will be given as prizes to the swift, death to the tardy: let those be the rules.’, Truly she was pitiless, but (such was the power of her beauty) a rash crowd of suitors came, despite the rules. says that Aphrodite, when she fell in love with Phaon, hid him away in ‘fair lettuce-beds,’ while the younger Marsyas declares that it was in a field of unripe barley. He took himself to lofty Mount Rhodope, and Haemus, swept by the winds, complaining that the gods of Erebus were cruel. A mourning Love passed by me now that sung Of tombs and urns and ev'ry mournful thing: Return, Adonis, 'tis for thee I grieve. Only then did Neptune’s scion throw away one of the fruits from the tree. Near the grave of Ankhises are the ruins of a sanctuary of Aphrodite [he remained connected with the goddess even in death], and at Ankhisiai is the boundary between Mantineia and Orkhomenos. This mountain they call Ankhisia after Ankhises. "Aphrodite, Zeus' daughter . "Apollon [in disguise] spoke to him [Aineias] : ‘Hero, then make your prayer, you also, to the everlasting gods, since they say that you yourself are born of Zeus' daughter Aphrodite.’", Homer, Iliad 20. He only sighed, and begged, as the last gift of the gods, that he might mourn forever. VENUS AND ADONIS EVEN as the sun with purple-colour'd face Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn, Rose-cheek'd Adonis hied him to the chase; Hunting he loved, but love he laugh'd to scorn; Sick-thoughted Venus makes amain unto him, And like a bold-faced suitor 'gins to woo him. She went to Kypros, to Paphos, where her precinct is and fragrant altar, and passed into her sweet-smelling temple. Yet if you could live on such as now you are in look and in form, and be called my husband, sorrow would not then enfold my careful heart. 'Thrice-fairer than myself,' thus she began, Cupid denies that his arrows hurt you, Myrrha, and clears his fires of blame for your crime. : Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. Ribbons with embroidered edges fluttered at her knees, and a blush spread over the girlish whiteness of her body, just as when a red awning over a white courtyard stains it with borrowed shadows. Goold) (Roman elegy C1st B.C.) She made up for the delay and the lost time by a burst of speed, and left the youth behind once more. Myrrha is overjoyed at this gift, and, being consulted as to what kind of husband she might choose, says: “Someone like you”. He carried me over many fields of mortal men and over much land untilled and unpossessed, where savage wild-beasts roam through shady coombes, until I thought never again to touch the life-giving earth with my feet. And lest my story be longer than the race itself, the virgin was overtaken: the winner led away his prize.” ’. All things are destined to be yours, and though we delay a while, sooner or later we hasten home. to C1st A.D.) : Propertius, Elegies 2. The king of the gods once burned with love for Phrygian Ganymede, and to win him Jupiter chose to be something other than he was. Then striking the lyre-strings to accompany his words, he sang: ‘O gods of this world, placed below the earth, to which all, who are created mortal, descend; if you allow me, and it is lawful, to set aside the fictions of idle tongues and speak the truth, I have not come here to see dark Tartarus, nor to bind Cerberus, Medusa’s child, with his three necks, and snaky hair. Adonis, son of Cinyras. 420 ff (trans. A tree gleams in the middle of the field, with rustling golden leaves, and golden branches. Finding Cinyras drunk with wine, the king’s bed empty of his lawful partner, the nurse, wrongly diligent, told him of one who truly loved him, giving him a fictitious name, and praised her beauty. You must avoid, them, my love, and with them all the species of wild creature, that do not turn and run, but offer their breasts to the fight, lest your courage be the ruin of us both!” ’. "The strong son of Ankhises was leader of the Dardanians [in the Trojan War], Aineias, whom divine Aphrodite bore to Ankhises in the folds of Ida, a goddess lying in love with a mortal. When she hesitated, the old woman took her by the hand, and, leading her to the high bed, delivered her up, saying: “Take her Cinyras, she is yours”, uniting their accursed flesh. Nor is it his beauty that moves me (yet I could be touched by that too) but that he is still only a boy. What if he does love, and thinks so much of marriage with me, that he would die, if a harsh fate denies me to him? Nevertheless, you will not escape, and, still living, you will not be yourself.’ Afraid of the god’s oracle, she lived in the dark forests, unmarried, and fled from the crowd of insistent suitors, setting harsh conditions: ‘I will not be won, till I am beaten in running. "Adonis, having become androgynous, behaved as a man for Aphrodite and as a woman for Apollon. Amazon.in - Buy Venus and Adonis: The Ultimate Translation book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. Commentary 1. Who will believe my verse in time to come, Who will believe = who (among the readers of the future) will believe 2. The race gave her a beauty of its own. And when the bright goddess had fully clothed herself, she stood by the couch, and her head reached to the well-hewn roof-tree; from her cheeks shone unearthly beauty such as belongs to rich-crowned Kytherea. ", Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 271 : I had not yet realised what the prize was you were after.’ Praising her, he falls in love with her, and hopes none of the youths run faster, afraid, through jealousy. Venus and Adonis: The ultimate translation: Hamilton, Jamie, Shakespeare, William: Amazon.com.au: Books The golden moon fled the sky; black clouds covered the hidden stars; night lacked its fires. She spoke a last ‘farewell’ that, now, scarcely reached his ears, and turned again towards that same place. 311 ff : Kindly Venus was preparing to abandon her cities, and the Cyprian fields, outraged by their abominable rites, but ‘How,’ she said, ‘have my cities, or this dear place, sinned? : . But enjoyment of it is brief; for, lightly clinging, and too easily fallen, the winds deflower it, which are likewise responsible for its name, windflower: anemone. – Should he die, then, because he wants to live with me, and suffer an unjust death as the penalty for loving? Gullick) (Greek rhetorician C2nd to 3rd A.D.) : "When Smyrna became pregnant [by her father] Thias felt an urge to learn who the mother of his child was. ", Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3. Hippomenes passed her: the stands resounded with the applause. Compete in the foot-race with me. The poet modestly implies that the deserts and superb qualitiesof the youth are too large and abundant for his pen to describe adequately. 820 ff (trans. Gullick) (Greek rhetorician C2nd to 3rd A.D.) : Aelian, Historical Miscellany 12. "Aphrodite, furious with [the Muse] Kleio, who had chided her for loving Adonis, caused her to fall in love with [a mortal], Magnes' son Pieros. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. A complete bibliography of the translations quoted on this page. Now he tries to revive you, now to staunch your dreadful wound, and now applies herbs to hold back your departing spirit. 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