One was the celebrated group representing the Parting of Venus and Adonis.

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.

* Venus and Adonis

About 1683, John Blow composed Venus and Adonis, often thought of as the first true English-language opera.

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.

As can readily be seen with the context restored, Barkstead compares his poem about Venus and Adonis (“ my Muse ”) with Shakespeare ’ s, saying that his poetry sung " the withered tree " while Shakespeare ’ s " sung the fair blossom ", and that Shakespeare deserves laurel, the emblem of victory or poetic superiority, but that Barkstead, the lesser poet, deserves only cypress in comparison.

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.

* Venus and Adonis, Q1 — 1593, Q2 — 1594 ( with later editions in octavo );

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

The myth of Myrrha and Cinyras is sung by Orpheus in the tenth book of Metamorphoses after he has told the myth of Pygmalion and before he turns to the tale of Venus and Adonis.

Venus pitied the girl's fate, changing her into a myrrh tree, from which was born Adonis.

In the poem Venus and Adonis, written by William Shakespeare in 1593 Venus refers to Adonis ' mother.

In the 34th stanza Venus is lamenting because Adonis is ignoring her approaches and in her heart-ache she says " O, had thy mother borne so hard a mind, She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind.

The reference is justified in the way that it draws inspiration from Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses, just like his previously written poem, Venus and Adonis, did.

Shakespeare's early erotic poem Venus and Adonis expands on the myth in Book 10 of the Metamorphoses.

The lovers in the pediment at the top are Atunis ( Adonis ) and the unknown E … ial where Turan ( Venus ) would be expected.

Turan and Atunis ( the Etruscan Venus and Adonis myth ) also appear, as another couple whose love is destroyed by the savagery of the hunt.

Here appears what seems to be the absolutely earliest praise of Shakespeare in a piece entitled A Remembrance of some English Poets, in which the still unrecognized author of Venus and Adonis is celebrated by the side of Spenser, Daniel and Drayton.

Works such as Marjorie Rosen ’ s Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream ( 1973 ) and Molly Haskell ’ s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in Movies ( 1974 ) analyze how the women portrayed in film related to the broader historical context, the stereotypes depicted, the extent to which the women were shown as active or passive, and the amount of screen time given to women.

' is Southampton's initials reversed, and that he is a likely candidate as he was the dedicatee of Shakespeare's poems Venus & Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.

Such were the Sonnets of William Shakespeare who also wrote the erotic poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.

Shakespeare's first two narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, were dedicated to Southampton, who is one of the major candidates to be the " Fair Youth " in Shakespeare's Sonnets.

Venus and Adonis ( 1593 ) was dedicated to Southampton in terms expressing respect, but no special intimacy ; but in the dedication of The Rape of Lucrece ( 1594 ) the tone is very different.

They were carelessly printed with many errors, in contrast to the carefully printed early editions of Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.

Whose Venus and whose Lucrece ( sweet and chaste )

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

In 1594, Shakespeare dedicated Lucrece to Southampton as the " graver labour " promised in his dedication to Venus and Adonis.

* Venus and Lucrece by Bardy Thomas from Shakespeare, 27 January-20 February 1988 ( 92 )

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

The following year he was put in charge of the Greek games that were staged in honor of the Temple of Venus Genetrix, built by Julius Caesar.

Amongst these were the group Mars and Venus, the colossal figure of Pius VI, the Pietà, the St John, the recumbent Magdalen.

A statue of Venus in a bikini was found in a cupboard in the southwest corner in Casa della Venere, others were found in the front hall.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

The expedition sailed from England on 26 August 1768, rounded Cape Horn and continued westward across the Pacific to arrive at Tahiti on 13 April 1769, where the observations of the Venus Transit were made.

Select sculptures such as Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo were sent to the Château de Valençay.

As in Venus in Furs, he traveled in the third-class compartment, while she had a seat in first-class, arriving in Venice ( Florence, in the novel ), where they were not known, and would not arouse suspicion.

( In Kline's original work, his Mars and Venus stories were set in contemporary and 1930s times.

Venus, Mercury and the outer planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were all identified by Babylonian astronomers.

* Even if life were to survive the hardships of space, or further, was being created in space, these would be very enduring life forms, as the theory itself proposes, and they would have already visibly populated and altered Venus and Mars as well as other moons in the solar system.

To the Ancient Greeks, some " stars ", known as planets ( Greek πλανήτης ( planētēs ), meaning " wanderer "), represented various important deities, from which the names of the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were taken.

According to Horace Walpole, the members ' " practice was rigorously pagan: Bacchus and Venus were the deities to whom they almost publicly sacrificed ; and the nymphs and the hogsheads that were laid in against the festivals of this new church, sufficiently informed the neighborhood of the complexion of those hermits.

* Venus Automobile, a 1950s American custom car, of which less than ten were built

These instruments were designed to measure the temperature distribution on the surface of Venus, as well as making basic measurements of Venus ' atmosphere.

All instruments were operated throughout the cruise and encounter modes except the radiometers, which were only used in the immediate vicinity of Venus.

The magnetometer could detect changes of about 4 γ on any of the axes, but no trends above 10 γ were detected near Venus, nor were fluctuations seen like those that appear at Earth's magnetospheric termination.

Improved estimates of Venus ' mass and the value of the astronomical unit were made.