 According to Lucian's "De Dea Syria", each year during the festival of Adonis, the Adonis River in Lebanon (now known as the Abraham River) ran red with blood.The medieval French poet Jean de Meun retells the story of Adonis in his additions to the "Roman de la Rose", written in around 1275.De Muen moralizes the story, using it as an example of how men should heed the warnings of the women they love.