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Adonis [r]: A beautiful youth who loved the goddess Aphrodite, but he was killed when hunting. Source: Elizabeth Vandiver, Classics scholar, authority on Greek mythology as well as Greek tragedy, the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Homer, and Virgil. This definition is based on her course Classical Mythology for The Teaching Company.