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    French Revolution) in 1889.[citation needed] Its main works include Venus and Adonis by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew...
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    better hunter than her. In other versions, Artemis killed Adonis for revenge. In later myths, Adonis is a favorite of Aphrodite, who was responsible for the...
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  • never mentions any connection to Hecate, see Detienne M, The Gardens of Adonis, Princeton UP, 1994, pp.83–9. "No Fear Shakespeare: Macbeth: Act 2, Scene...
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    silver mines may be seen. Off the south end of Little Sark are the Venus Pool and the Adonis Pool, both natural swimming pools whose waters are refreshed at...
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    himself has written and derived from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Venus and Adonis. Gullio plans to eventually recite these verses as part of his wooing...
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    Sicyon. Adoneus, a rare archaism in Roman literature, a Latinised form of Adonis, used as epithet for Bacchus. Aegobolus Αἰγοβόλος ("goat-shooter") at Potniae...
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    each proposed as husbands for the three daughters of Edward de Vere. Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were dedicated to Southampton (whom many scholars...
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    Château de Meudon (category Monuments historiques of Île-de-France)
    painting was sent in 1962 to the Musée de Saint-Etienne under the title: Venus and Adonis , and attributed in error to Bon Boullogne. Its former oval shape is...
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  • Archibald Sayce, l.c. pp. 441, 450, 463; Lenormant, l.c. pp. 48–51. Sarah Iles Johnston, Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide, Harvard University Press...
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    Cutts 1962, p. 82. David Greer, "An Early Setting of Lines from 'Venus and Adonis'," Music & Letters vol. 45, No. 2 (Apr., 1964), p. 127. Wikimedia Commons...
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    river as a pastime". (G. Paradin in his Histoire de Lyon) Martyrologium Adonis sub data IV nonas Junii "a feastof great rejoicing for the people of Lyon...
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    (sculptures by Paolo Persico, Brunelli, Pietro Solari); the Fountain of Venus and Adonis (1770–80); the Fountain of the Dolphins (1773–80); the Fountain of...
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    represent figures from Greek mythology: Cephalus, Aurora, Cupid, Aphrodite (Venus), Adonis, and Flora, the goddess of flowers and gardens. Other statues represent...
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    ISBN 9781438131801. Retrieved 6 October 2014. Graf, Fritz; Johnston, Sarah Iles (2007). Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets...
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  • assassination of his father, Ibrahim Shah in 1685. July 28 – The opera Vénus et Adonis, composed by Henri Desmarets with libretto by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau...
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  • Musée d'Orsay, Paris (url) Filippo Lauri (1623–1694), 4 paintings : Venus and Adonis, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna (url) Pietro Lauri (1634–1669)...
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    218–219, and in Greco-Roman myths of boar hunting, particularly the death of Adonis. See also articles on the Calydonian Boar and the Erymanthian Boar. Daurel...
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    Palace of Fontainebleau (category Art museums and galleries in Île-de-France)
    Driven Out; The Unity of the State; Cliobis and Biton; Danae; The Death of Adonis; The Loss of Perpetual Youth; and The Battle of the Centaurs and the Lapithes...
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  • List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1819 Ship State Description Adonis  United Kingdom The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Kinnaird Head, near Fraserburgh...
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    Dauphine River Rivière de la Savane (île d'Orléans) Ruisseau du Moulin (île d'Orléans) Rivière Pot au Beurre (île d'Orléans) Rivière du Moulin...
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  • Great Hurricane of 1780: The snow was driven ashore and wrecked on Grenada. Adonis Sint Eustatius Great Hurricane of 1780: The schooner was damaged at Grenada...
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  • shipwrecks: 18 December 1812 Ship State Description HMS Alban  Royal Navy The Adonis-class schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Aldeburgh, Suffolk with...
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    111v Pox on pelfe why should wee loue it John Taylor 129 112r-113r Come Adonis come again Henry Lawes? John Tatham Attributed to William Lawes in Select...
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  • Denmark in a leaky condition. Venus  United Kingdom The ship struck floating wreckage 20 nautical miles (37 km) south of the Îles des Saintes, Finistère, France...
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  • List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1877 Ship State Description Adonis  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the coast of Saint Domingo. Her crew were rescued...
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  • List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1842 Ship State Description Adonis  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Henecagua Reef. She was on a voyage from Savanilla...
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  • State Description HMS Alphea  Royal Navy War of the Sixth Coalition: The Adonis-class schooner was sunk in the English Channel south west of Start Point...
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  • shipwrecks: 20 January 1809 Ship State Description HMS Claudia  Royal Navy The Adonis-class schooner was wrecked off Kristiansand, Norway with the loss of fourteen...
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  • County Durham to Rotterdam, South Holland. Adonis British North America The schooner was wrecked on the Île aux Caudres. She was on a voyage from Sydney...
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  • on a voyage from Okhotsk to Petropavlovsk. HMS Zenobia  Royal Navy The Adonis-class schooner ran aground 20 nautical miles (37 km) south of Cape Henry...
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