Eros

Eros (/ˈɪərɒs/, US Inglis: /ˈɛrɒs/; Ancient Greek: Ἔρως, "Desire"), in Greek meethologie, is the Greek god o luve. His Roman coonterpairt wis Cupid ("desire"). Some meeths mak him a primordial god, while in ither meeths, he is the son o Aphrodite.

This airticle is aboot the Greek god Eros. For ither uisses, see Eros (disambiguation).

Eros
God o desire an attraction
The Eros Farnese, a Pompeiian marble thocht tae be a copy o the colossal Eros o Thespiae bi Praxiteles[1]
Abode	Munt Olympus
Symbol	Bowe, Arraes, Caunles, Herts, Cupids, Weengs an Kisses
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Consort	Psyche
Childer	Hedone
Parents	Chaos or Aphrodite an Ares or Aphrodite an Hermes, or Iris and Zephyrus
Siblins	Harmonia, Anteros, Himeros, Phobos, Adrestia an Deimos
Roman equivalent	Cupid

Evolution o the cult an depiction o Eros

Eros appears in auncient Greek sources unner several different guises. In the earliest sources (the cosmogonies, the earliest filosofers, an texts referrin tae the mystery releegions), he is ane o the primordial gods involvit in the comin intae bein o the cosmos. But in later sources, Eros is representit as the son o Aphrodite, whose mischievous interventions in the affairs o gods an mortals cause bonds o love tae form, aften illicitly. Ultimately, in the later satirical poets, he is representit as a blindfauldit bairn, the precursor tae the chubby Renaissance Cupid – whareas in early Greek poetry an airt, Eros wis depictit as an adult male who embodies sexual pouer.^[2][3]

Primordial god

Accordin tae Hesiod (c. 700 BC), ane o the maist auncient o aw Greek sources, Eros wis a primordial god, that is, he haed nae parents. He wis the fowert god tae come intae existence, comin efter Chaos, Gaia (the Yird), an Tartarus (the Abyss or the Unnerwarld).^[4]

Homer does no mention Eros. However, Parmenides (c. 400 BC), ane o the pre-socratic filosofers, makes Eros the first o aw the gods tae come intae existence.^[5]

The Orphic an Eleusinian Mysteries featured Eros as a vera oreeginal god, but no quite primordial, syne he wis the bairn o Nicht (Nyx).^[2] Aristophanes (c. 400 BC), influencit bi Orphism, relates the birth o Eros an then o the entire human race:

At the beginnin thare wis anerlie Chaos, Nicht (Nyx), Darkness (Erebus), an the Abyss (Tartarus). Yird, the Air an Heiven haed nae existence. Firstly, blackwinged Nicht laid a germless egg in the bosom o the infinite deeps o Darkness, an frae this, efter the revolution o lang ages, sprang the graceful Luve (Eros) wi his glitterin gowden wings, swift as the whirlwinds o the tempest. He matit in the deep Abyss wi dark Chaos, winged like hissel, an thus hatched fort oor race, which wis the first tae see the licht.^[6]