“When Aphrodite came, it was in pursuit of her lover, of course, a mortal named Adonis, who loved to hunt. For a while, she amused herself with it, too, chasing after hares and birds and thinking herself brave. She begged him to stay away from the bears, the wolves, and the lions, entreated him never to stalk a wild boar and risk so much as a scratch on his handsome flesh.”
