 In "Idyll" 15 by the early third-century BC Greek bucolic poet Theocritus, Adonis is described as a still an adolescent with down on his cheeks at the time of his love affair with Aphrodite, in contrast to Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in which he is portrayed as a fully mature man.Pseudo-Apollodorus ("Bibliotheke", 3.182) describes Adonis as the son of Cinyras, of Paphos on Cyprus, and Metharme.According to Pseudo-Apollodorus's "Bibliotheke", Hesiod, in an unknown work that does not survive, made of him the son of Phoenix and the otherwise unidentified Alphesiboea.