Adonis and Aphrodite Greek Mythology

Adonis and Aphrodite Greek Mythology 

Once, she took a baby boy she had found beside a myrrh tree to the Underworld and asked Persephone to take good care of 

him. However, when she went to visit him after many years, she instantly fell in love with the now unusually handsome mortal. So, he asked to have Adonis – for that was the boy’s name – back. Persephone wouldn’t allow this. Zeus settled the quarrel by dividing Adonis’ time between the two goddesses. However, Adonis preferred Aphrodite and, when the time came, he didn’t want to go back to the Underworld. Persephone sent a wild boar to kill him, and Adonis bled to death in Aphrodite’s arms. The couple had two children: Beroe and Golgos.