And so it is the blood of Adonis that each spring turns to red the torrential river, the Adonis River ( also known as Abraham River or Nahr Ibrahim in Arabic ) in modern Lebanon.

His choice of name relates especially to the rebirth element of the myth of Adonis ( also called " Tammuz " in Arabic ), which was an important theme in mid-20th century Arabic poetry, chiefly amongst followers of the " Free Verse " ( الشعر الحر ) movement founded by Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab.

In that same year, he made his first motion picture appearance as an Adonis, wearing only a fig leaf, in a movie entitled Glorifying the American Girl.

The poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece, first published in 1593 and 1594 under the name " William Shakespeare ", proved highly popular for several decades – with Venus and Adonis published six more times before 1616, while Lucrece required four additional printings during this same period.

Commissioned by Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1808 and finished in 1832 a statue of Adonis is one of the few works in marble carved solely by Thorvaldsen's own hand, and at the same time it is one of the works that is closest to the antique Greek ideals.

Images of other classical paragons of male beauty, Adonis and Endymion, are also mentioned in the same context.

But even before the discovery of the Ugaritic texts some suspected that Hadad-rimmon might be a dying god like Adonis or Tammuz, perhaps even the same as Tammuz, and the allusion could then be to mournings for Hadad such as those which usually accompanied the Adonis festivals.

He became a royal academician in 1808, and presented as his diploma work " Venus and Adonis " ( exhibited the same year ), perhaps the best of his creative subjects, apart from " Expulsion from Paradise ".

During this same period, Adonis became partners with Meyer Lansky in an illegal casino in Hallandale Beach, Florida.

In the same week Lord Adonis visited the station, a man was brutally attacked at the station with a baseball bat.

House was boosted by the tour in the same year of Knuckles, Jefferson, Fingers Inc. ( Heard ) and Adonis as the DJ International Tour.

This was used by the Phoenicians for the god Tammuz and is the origin of the Greek name Adonis.

Around this time, the cult of Adonis is noted in the Book of Ezekiel in Jerusalem, though under the Babylonian name Tammuz.

The mythical Myrrha inspired the name and her son, Adonis, is the name given to another asteroid, 2101 Adonis.

He says he will obtain a picture of him for his study and that " I'll worship sweet Mr Shakespeare and to honour him will lay his Venus and Adonis under my pillow, as we read of one-I do not well remember his name, but I'm sure he was a king-slept with Homer under his bed's head ".

Another story says that Adonis adopted the name after reading a magazine article on Greek mythology.

He then changed his name to Joe Adonis.

This is the earliest known printed allusion to Shakespeare by name ( aside from the title pages of Venus and Adonis and Lucrece ).

* Adonis or Adunis, pen name of Ali Ahmad Said ( born 1930 ), Syrian poet

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Adonis is a Chicago acid house pioneer who made his name with the classic 1986 tracks ' No Way Back ' and ' We're Rockin Down The House '.

A poetry-loving character says he will obtain a picture of Shakespeare for his study and that " I'll worship sweet Mr Shakespeare and to honour him will lay his Venus and Adonis under my pillow, as we read of one – I do not well remember his name, but I'm sure he was a king – slept with Homer under his bed's head ".

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The Dangerous Alliance was a heel professional wrestling stable that made a name for itself in World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) in the early ' 90s and the American Wrestling Association ( AWA ) in 1987, with Adrian Adonis, Randy Rose, and Dennis Condrey making up the AWA incarnation of the group.

* It has been used under the trade name Adonis for locust control in Madagascar and in Kazakhstan.

In Greek Mythology, Aous is an epithet or name of Adonis.

The life-size so-called " Adonis " found in 1780 on the site of a villa suburbana near the Via Labicana in the Roman suburb of Centocelle is identified as an Apollo by modern scholars.

It is occasionally considered the first genuine English opera, though that title is usually given to Blow's Venus and Adonis: as in Blow's work, the action does not progress in spoken dialogue but in Italian-style recitative.

Shakespeare scholars point out that Sobran has simply misread Barkstead ’ s poem, the last stanza of which is a comparison of Barkstead ’ s poem to Shakespeare ’ s " Venus and Adonis ", and has mistaken the grammar also, which makes it clear that Barkstead is referring to Shakespeare ’ s " song " in the past tense, not Shakespeare himself.

Taking a more positive position, Mettinger argues in his recent book that the category of rise and return to life is significant for the following deities: Ugaritic Baal, Melqart, Adonis, Eshmun, Osiris and Dumuzi.

In 135 CE, Hadrian is said to have had the Christian site above the Grotto converted into a worship place for Adonis, the Greek pagan god of beauty and desire.

Adonis, is Greek mythology, the god of beauty and desire, is a central figure in various mystery religions.

Adonis is one of the most complex figures in classical times.

Adonis is often referred to as the mortal god of Beauty.

Syrian Adonis is Gauas or Aos, to Egyptian Osiris, to the Semitic Tammuz and Baal Hadad, to the Etruscan Atunis and the Phrygian Attis, all of whom are deities of rebirth and vegetation.

The most detailed and literary version of the story of Adonis is a late one, in Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

It is there that the myth of Astarte ( Venus ) and Adonis was born.

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

Yet there is no trace of a Semitic deity directly connected with Adonis, and no trace in Semitic languages of any specific mythemes connected with his Greek myth ; both Greek and Near Eastern scholars have questioned the connection ( Burkert, p 177 note 6 bibliography ).

The connection in practice is with Adonis ' Mesopotamian counterpart, Tammuz:

When the legend of Adonis was incorporated into Greek culture is debated.