WorkBion of Smyrna

“Epitaphios Adonidos [Lament for Adonis]”

Epitaphios Adonidos [Lament for Adonis] (c. 100 BCE) Inferred

InferredA passage Richard Fuller read aloud to Margaret, combining the address to Proserpine as receiver of the dead with the myth of Adonis—roses springing from his blood, anemones from Venus's tears—closely matches the thematic elements of Bion's *Lament for Adonis* (c. 100 BCE), though the wording may be from a prose paraphrase rather than a direct translation.

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Documented 1842

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Elizabeth Hoar

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“Richard read me something from the Greek, for he did not wish to talk about little Waldo. It was to this effect: "All things return to thee, o Prosperpine!”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred A passage Richard Fuller read aloud to Margaret, combining the address to Proserpine as receiver of the dead with the myth of Adonis—roses springing from his blood, anemones from Venus's tears—closely matches the thematic elements of Bion's Lament for Adonis (c. 100 BCE), though the wording may be from a prose paraphrase rather than a direct translation.