The mischievous god of love

EROS was the mischievous god of love, a minion and constant companion of the goddess Aphrodite. He was variously described.

The one Eros, however, remained distinct in myth. It was he who lighted the flame of love in the hearts of the gods and men, armed either with a bow and arrows or else a flaming torch. He was also the object of cult.

ENCYCLOPEDIA: EROS (Erôs), in Latin, AMOR or CUPI′DO, the god of love. In the sense in which he is usually conceived, Eros is the creature of the later Greek poets; and in order to understand the ancients properly we must distinguish three Erotes: viz. the Eros of the ancient cosmogonies, the Eros of the philosophers and mysteries, who bears great resemblance to the first, and the Eros whom we meet with in the epigrammatic and erotic poets, whose witty and playful descriptions of the god, however, can scarcely be considered as a part of the ancient religious belief of the Greeks. Theoi Project Copyright © 2000 - 2007, Aaron Atsma

Eros was often portrayed as a child, the disobedient, but fiercely loyal, son of Aphrodite.

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