Literary Works
- Venus and Adonis, a mythological episode from Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses, and the inspiration for many of the following works
- Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem), a poem by William Shakespeare
- Venus and Adonis (opera), an opera by John Blow
- Venus and Adonis (Constable poem), a poem by Henry Constable
- Vénus et Adonis, an opera by Henry Desmarest
- Venus und Adonis, an opera by Hans Werner Henze
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