Assignment: Discover my story from the Metamorphoses of Ovid.
Elvis is not only a Dionysus but also an Adonis (must die tragicaly young).
In modern parlance the name "Adonis" is frequently used as an allusion to an extremely attractive, youthful male, often with a connotation of deserved vanity: "the office Adonis".
In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman refers to his sons Biff and Happy as "Adonises." This is representative of the idealistic way he views them.
Giovan Battista Marino's masterpiece, Adone, published in 1623, is a long, sensual poem, which elaborates the myth of Adonis, and represents the transition in Italian literature from Mannerism to the Baroque.
In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman refers to his sons Biff and Happy as "Adonises." This is representative of the idealistic way he views them.
Giovan Battista Marino's masterpiece, Adone, published in 1623, is a long, sensual poem, which elaborates the myth of Adonis, and represents the transition in Italian literature from Mannerism to the Baroque.
Adonis was born of incest from a tree.
- storytelling (most erotic activity in which a man and a woman can be involved).
- Gored in the groin by a wild boar.
- Anemoni (flower from his blood). Anemone (Anemone) (from the Gr. Άνεμος, wind), is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the buttercup family
Dionysus - Wild Thing
- "You do not see him because you lack reverence."
- "Who are you?" ~Catapiller
- Evius - Elvis
- "you bare the city's pain alone."
- Ecstatic - Agave
- Pentheus = grief
- *Test* Anagnorisis - Recognition *Test*
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