Across civilizations, rivers—the Greek Styx, the Chinese River of Oblivion, and the Sumerian Hubur—have always been closely associated with death. Dala Nasser’s exhibition Adonis River, exploring ...
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Adonis, in Greek mythology, was a young human of exceptional beauty, so alluring that he was fought over by Persephone and Aphrodite, and they were goddesses. The reference survives in modern English ...