Ovid's Venus and Adonis

     The original story of Venus and Adonis tells of Venus accidentally getting scratched by one of Cupid’s arrows and subsequently falling head-over-heels in love with Adonis, a beautiful hunter. Venus leaves all that is normal to he to follow Adonis. She forgoes her life of luxury and begins dressing like Diana, the goddess of the hunt, in order to make herself seem more appealing to Adonis, who is much more concerned with hunting than with Venus. Venus warns Adonis not to go after any larger animals, for they will not be as swayed by his beauty as she. Instead, she pleads with him to only hunt smaller creatures that cannot hurt him. In the end, Venus warns him one last time to only hunt harmless creatures, but Adonis shakes her off and leaves for a final hunt, where he dies by the tusks of a boar he did not kill correctly.