 Jacques is ultimately shot and killed in a duel, thus following the model of Adonis's tragic death.The late nineteenth-century Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer wrote extensively about Adonis in his monumental study of comparative religion "The Golden Bough" (the first edition of which was published in 1890) as well as in later works.Frazer claimed that Adonis was just one example of the archetype of a "dying-and-rising god" found throughout all cultures.