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Adonis ' birth is shrouded in confusion for those who require a single, authoritative version, for various peripheral stories circulated concerning Adonis ' parentage.

The patriarchal Hellenes sought a father for the god, and found him in Byblos and Cyprus, which scholars take to indicate the direction from which Adonis ' had come to the Greeks.

Pseudo-Apollodorus, ( Bibliotheke, 3. 182 ) considered Adonis to be the son of Cinyras, of Paphos on Cyprus, and Metharme.

According to pseudo-Apollodorus ' Bibliotheke, Hesiod, in an unknown work that does not survive, made of him the son of Phoenix and the otherwise unidentified Alphesiboea.