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In Greek mythology, Eros was the god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. His name is the root of words such as erotic. His Roman equivalent was Cupid, "desire", also known as Amor, "love". He was often associated with Aphrodite. He was, like Dionysus, sometimes referred to as Eleutherios, "the liberator".
Throughout Greek thought, there appear to be two sides to the conception of Eros; in the first, he is a primeval deity who embodies not only the force of erotic love but also the creative urge of ever-flowing nature, the first-born Light that is responsible for the coming into being and ordering of all things in the cosmos. In Hesiod's Theogony, the most famous Greek creation myth, Eros sprang forth from the primordial Chaos together with Gaia, Earth, and Tartarus, the underworld; according to Aristophanes' play The BirdsThe Birds Ornithes is a comedy written by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes in 414 BC, and performed that year for the Festival of Dionysus. Background Unlike most of Aristophanes' plays, The Birds doesn't attack any specific person or event., he burgeons forth from an egg laid by Night conceived with Darkness. In the Eleusinian MysteriesThe Eleusinian Mysteries were initiation ceremonies for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis in ancient Greece. Of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient times these were held to be the ones of greatest importance. These myths and mysterie, he was worshipped as Protogonus, the first-born.
Alternately, later in antiquity, Eros was the son of Aphrodite and either AresAries (Latin for "ram"), the constellation and Zodiac sign is unrelated to Ares, the Greek god of war described below. Ares Galaxy, the peer-to-peer file sharing program, is also unrelated to Ares. The Amateur Radio Emergency Service is also unrelated to or HephaestusHephaestus (also Hephaistos or Hephaestos is the Greek god of fire and the forge. He is called Vulcan or Mulciber ("softener") in Roman mythology and Sethlans in Etruscan mythology. He is the Greek God of the forge, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculp, or of PorusIn Plato's Symposium Porus or Poros was the personification of expediency. He married Penia at a feast. He was sometimes considered the son of Metis and father of Eros. Greek gods. and PeniaIn Plato's Symposium Penia was the personification of poverty. She married Porus at a feast. She was sometimes considered the mother of Eros. Greek goddesses., or sometimes of Iris and ZephyrusIn Greek mythology, Zephyrus or Zephyros was the gentle god of the west wind, one of the Anemoi. It was thought that Zephyrus lived in a cave on Thrace. He is the son of Eos and Aeolus and the brother of Boreas, Eurus and Notus. He abducted the goddess Ch; this Eros was an attendant to Aphrodite, harnessing the primordial force of love and directing it into mortals, an apt role for the issue of a union between "Love" and either "War" or "Fire." In some myths, he is portrayed as being playful, frequently causing trouble for gods and mortals; in others, he is mindful of the power he wields, sometimes refusing the entreaties of his mother and other gods to interfere in the course of some mortals' lives. In some versions he had brothers named Anteros, the embodiment and Himerus.
In art, Eros was usually depicted as a winged young boy or infant, with his bow and arrows in hand. He had two kinds of arrows: one was golden with dove feathers that caused instant love; the other was lead with owl feathers that caused indifference. The poet Sappho described him as "bittersweet" and "cruel" to his victims; he was also unscrupulous, mischievous and charismatic. In his ancient identification with Protogones and Phanes he was adorned represented as a bull, a serpent, a lion, and with the heads of a ram.
Worship of Eros was uncommon in early Greece, but eventually became widespread. He was fervently worshipped by a fertility cult in Thespiae, and played an important role in the Eleusinian Mysteries. In Athens, he shared a very popular cult with Aphrodite, and the fourth day of every month was sacred to him.
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