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Adonis "Donnie" Creed (born Adonis Johnson) is the fictional protagonist of the Creed trilogy — Creed (2015), Creed II (2018), and Creed III (2023) — the follow-up franchise to the Rocky film series. The character is played by Michael B. Jordan in all three installments.
Feb 14, 2023 · When we first meet Adonis "Donnie" Johnson in "Creed," it's 1998 and he's in a juvenile detention center. Having been brawling with a kid twice his size, it's clear this boy has a fiery...
Sep 23, 2024 · Their meeting was orchestrated by fate. Aphrodite, captivated by Adonis’s beauty, took him under her wing. She entrusted him to Persephone, the queen of the Underworld, who also fell in love with the young man. This rivalry between the two powerful figures set the stage for the unfolding drama of their relationship. III. The Nature of Their Love
- Aphrodite Loves : Phaethon
- Aphrodite Loves : Adonis
- Aphrodite Loves : Phaon
- Aphrodite Loves : Butes
- Aphrodite Loves : Anchises
LOCALE : Syria (West Asia) Hesiod, Theogony 986 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) : "Then [Eos], embraced by Kephalos, she engendered a son, glorious Phaethon, the strong, a man in the likeness of the immortals; and, while he still had the soft flower of the splendour of youth upon him, still thought the light thoughs of a chil...
LOCALE : Kypros (Eastern Mediterranean) OR Assyria (West Asia) For the PRELUDE to this story see Aphrodite Wrath: Myrrha Smyrna Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 183 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "Kinyras took some people with him to Kypros and founded Paphos there; he married Metharme, a child of King Pygmalion of Kypros, and ...
LOCALE : Unknown (or Syria, if he is the same as Phaethon above) Phaon may be the same as Phaethon-Adonis. Both were described as being lain in a bed of lettuce - Adonis at his death, and Phaon at birth. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2. 69d (trans. Gullick) (Greek rhetorician C2nd to 3rd A.D.) : "And Kratinos comic poet C6th B.C.] says that Aphrodite,...
LOCALE : Anthemoessa (Mythical Island) & Lilybaion (Southern Italy) Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 135 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "As they [the Argonautoi] sailed past the Seirenes, Orpheus kept the Argonautoi in check by singing a song that offset the effect of the sisters' singing. The only one to swim off to them was B...
LOCALE : Mount Ida, Mysia (Anatolia) Hesiod, Theogony 1008 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) : "And Kythereia [Aphrodite] with the beautiful crown was joined in sweet love with the hero Ankhises and bare Aeneas on the peaks of Ida with its many wooded glens." Homer, Iliad 2. 820 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "T...
Jan 6, 2024 · As Adonis grew into a handsome young man, he caught the eye of the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite. She was besotted by his beauty and soon fell deeply in love with him. Adonis, in turn, was enamored with Aphrodite and the two began a passionate love affair.
Did Aphrodite and Adonis Have a Child? Aphrodite and Adonis didn't conceive a child together. Their intense romance, though breathtaking, was marked by beauty and tragedy. Adonis' premature demise at the tusks of a wild boar sealed their fate, extinguishing hopes of starting a family.
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As a remedial measure, she sent the child to be looked after by Persephone, the Queen of the Dead in the Underworld. It was also a move to keep him away from interfering eyes. However, Persephone, too, fell dearly in love with Adonis and refused to give him up when Aphrodite came for him.
