Editing Persephone (section)

=== Adonis ===
[[File:Locri Pinax Persephone Opens Liknon Mystikon.jpg|thumb|right|Persephone opening a ''[[cista]]'' containing the infant [[Adonis]], on a [[pinax]] from [[Epizephyrian Locris]].]]

[[Adonis]] was an exceedingly beautiful mortal man with whom Persephone fell in love.<ref>[[Greek anthology]] ''Agathias Scholasticus'' [https://topostext.org/work/532#5.289 5.289] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615121601/https://topostext.org/work/532#5.289 |date=15 June 2021 }}</ref><ref>[[Alciphron]], ''Letters to Courtesans'' [https://topostext.org/work/495#4.14.1 4.14.1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018194527/https://topostext.org/work/495#4.14.1 |date=18 October 2021 }}</ref><ref>[[Clement of Alexandria]], ''[[Protrepticus (Clement)|Exhortations]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/215#2.29 2.29] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501031401/https://topostext.org/work/215#2.29 |date=1 May 2021 }}</ref> After he was born, [[Aphrodite]] entrusted him to Persephone to raise. But when Persephone got a glimpse of the beautiful Adonis&mdash;finding him as attractive as Aphrodite did&mdash;she refused to give him back to her. The matter was brought before [[Zeus]], and he decreed that Adonis would spend one third of the year with each goddess, and have the last third for himself. Adonis chose to spend his own portion of the year with Aphrodite.<ref>{{harvnb|Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheca''|loc= [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.14.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022 3.14.4] }}; {{harvnb|Grimal|1996|loc=s.v. [https://archive.org/details/concisedictionar00grim/page/12/mode/2up?view=theater Adonis]}}; {{harvnb|Bell|1991|loc= s.v. [https://archive.org/details/womenofclassical00bell/page/54/mode/2up?view=theater Aphrodite]}}; {{harvnb|Tripp|1970|loc=s.v [https://archive.org/details/meridianhandbook00trip/page/12/mode/2up?view=theater Adonis]}}</ref> Alternatively, Adonis had to spend one half of the year with each goddess at the suggestion of the Muse [[Calliope]].<ref>{{harvnb|Gaius Julius Hyginus|loc=[https://topostext.org/work/207#2.7.4 2.7.4] }}</ref> Of them, [[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]] wrote that Adonis' life was divided between two goddesses: one who loved him beneath the earth,and one above,<ref>{{harvnb|Aelian, ''Animalium''|loc= [http://www.attalus.org/translate/animals9.html#36 9.36]}}</ref> while the satirical author [[Lucian]] of [[Samosata]] has Aphrodite complain to the [[moon goddess]] [[Selene]] that [[Eros]] made Persephone fall in love with her own beloved, and now she has to share Adonis with her.<ref>{{harvnb|Lucian tr. Fowler|loc= [http://lucianofsamosata.info/wiki/doku.php?id=home:texts_and_library:dialogues:dialogues-of-the-gods#section11 Aphrodite and the Moon]}}</ref> In another variation, Persephone met Adonis only after he had been slain by a boar; Aphrodite descended into the Underworld to take him back. But Persephone, smitten with him, would not let him go until they came to an agreement that Adonis would alternate between the land of the living and the land of the dead each year.<ref>[[Pseudo-Nonnus]], ''Commentary on [[Gregory of Nazianzus]]'' [https://www.persee.fr/doc/antiq_0770-2817_1976_num_45_1_1818 38] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121112826/https://www.persee.fr/doc/antiq_0770-2817_1976_num_45_1_1818 |date=21 January 2023 }}</ref>