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Adonis. In Greek mythology, Adonis ( Ancient Greek: Ἄδωνις, romanized : Adōnis; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤃𐤍, romanized: Adón) was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone. He was famous and considered to be the ideal of male beauty in classical antiquity . The myth goes that Adonis was gored by a wild boar during a ...
Antinous, also called Antinoös, ( / ænˈtɪnoʊʌs /; Greek: Ἀντίνοος; c. 111 – c. 130) [ a] was a Greek youth from Bithynia and a favourite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Following his premature death before his 20th birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in both the Greek East ...
The Beautiful Boy is a book by radical feminist academic Germaine Greer, published in 2003 as The Boy in the Commonwealth by Thames & Hudson and in the rest of the world by Rizzoli. [ 1] Its avowed intention was "to advance women's reclamation of their capacity for and right to visual pleasure". [ 2][ 3][ 4] The book is a study of the youthful ...
The Average Young American Male, also known as the Average American Man and the American Adonis, was a 22-inch plaster statue sculpted in 1921 by Jane Davenport Harris as a composite model for the eugenics movement in the United States. [1] The statue was exhibited at the Second and Third International Congresses of Eugenics in 1921 and 1932 ...
In Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses Adonis is a beautiful youth, a royal orphan, who spends his time hunting. Venus falls in love with him after one of Cupid's arrows hits her by mistake. They hunt together, but she avoids the fiercer animals, and warns him about them, citing the story of Atalanta.
The Canadian artist often shares photos and videos of him doting on his son, whom he shares with French artist Sophie Brussaux Drake proudly reveals son Adonis, 5, designed the cover art for his ...
Alonzo James "Lon" Hanagan was born in 1911 in Lexington, Massachusetts, the oldest child and only son of Frank and Lizzie Hanagan's three children. He had two younger sisters, Marry and Betty. The Hannagan's were a very religious family and although very close, it was a very strict family environment. The family had a piano and Lon played on ...
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