{"id":"01KG8B0SYX70SWR9EPV9Q6RHVA","cid":"bafkreidkytp6fda73kffu3mrnvtslo3i5w7vbinp6tt2w56arc3s4g7zn4","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiaqyase4nxd27zcpddxjaqdowe5z3r2w64gapvfuiabkvqtnl3dz4","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0025.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521465-bnaadlxw04e","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0025.jpg","page_number":25,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":496297,"text":"VENUS\nAND\nADONIS\n19\nsimple story of Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare drew crucial\nhints for his superstructure from two independent episodes\nof the Metamorphoses^ firstly from the wooing of the reluctant\nHermaphroditus by the maiden Salmacis (bk. iv), and secondly\nfrom the hunting of the Calydonian boar (bk. viii). The\ncoyness, which is the main characteristic of Shakespeare's\nAdonis, does not distinguish Ovid's Adonis, who is mildly\nresponsive to Venus' embraces ; it is the characteristic of\nanother of Ovid's mythical heroes, Hermaphroditus. Such\nlines in Golding's rendering of the tale of Salmacis and\nHermaphroditus as\nLeave off, (quoth he), or I am gone and leave thee at a\nbecke\nWith all thy tricks,\nand\nStriue, struggle, wrest and writh (she sayd) thou froward\nboy thy fill,\nDo what thou canst thou shalt not scape,\ncan be matched\nalmost\nverbatim in\nShakespeare's poem.\nThere\nis\nnothing\nfaintly\nresembling\nthem\nin\nOvid's\ntale\nof\nVenus and\nAdonis.\nThe\nwhite\nfigure\nof the\nboy Herma-\nphroditus, gleaming\nbeneath\nthe water\nas\nhe\nbathes,\nis\nlikened\nby Ovid\nto\nan\nimage\nin ivory or\na\nwhite\nlily\nencased\nin\nclear\nglass.' Adonis' white\nhand\nis\ncompared by\nShake-\nspeare to\nA lily prison'd in a gaol of snow,\nOr\nivory in an alabaster\nband. (3(^3-4.)*\nBut\nit is\npossible that\nShakespeare interwove\nthis\nOvidian\n*\nIn\nliquidis translucet aquis,\nut\neburnca\nsiquis\nSigna\ntegat claro, vel\nCandida\nlilia,\nvitro\n(Ovid,\nMet.\niv.\n1%^-%).\n' In Jove's Labour's\nLost^\nii.\ni.\nz^i-z^ Shakespeare quotes\nas\nsymbolic of\nextravagant\nwealth, '■Jewels htcrystalior\nsome prince\nto\nbuy\n.\n.\n.\ntend'ring\ntheir\nown worth, from where they were\nglass'\nd.'\nC 2","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.465Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1632},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4X0DM39SSQK43XXG34R","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.333Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:25.237Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}