Persephone opens the chest containing Adonis pinax 490-450 BCE
"Because of his [the infant Adonis] beauty, Aphrodite secreted him away in a chest, keeping it from the Gods, and left him with Persephone. But when Persephone got a glimpse of Adonis, she refused to return him. When the matter was brought to Zeus for arbitration, he divided the year into three parts and decreed that Adonis would spend one third of the year by himself, one third with Persephone, and the rest with Aphrodite. But Adonis added his own portion to Aphrodite's."
-Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 184 - 185 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.)
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| Persephone opening a cista containing the infant Adonis, on a pinax from Locri 490-450 BCE. Museo Nazionale Archeologico at Reggio Di Calabria in Italy. |
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