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Vénus et Adonis
**Vénus et Adonis** is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare (published 1593), based on the Greek myth told in Ovid's *Metamorphoses*. It recounts the goddess Venus's passionate but unrequited pursuit of the handsome young hunter Adonis, who rejects her advances and is ultimately killed by a wild boar, prompting Venus's grief and the transformation of his blood into the anemone flower.