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Eros

deity sky Greek corroborated · 19

Eros struck her twice with arrows of love and a confrontation took place for her love.

↻ synthesized from 19 sources

When

First attested
1500 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Mentioned by Pausanias.

Relationships

co occurs with
Asklepios, Enodia, Selene, Endymion, Aethlius, Muia, Harpocrates, Apis, Heru-pa-Khered, Bubastis, Calliope, Chaos, Aether, Nyx, Curetes, Iacchus, Aura, Hēraklēs, Peitho, Arke, Ocypete, Dioscuri, Cadmus, Theritas, Lapithae, Halirrhothius, Alcippe, Agraulos, Pothos, Iris, Pomona, Hestia, Narcissus, Pheme, Echo, Podarge, Carpus, Astraeus, Boreas, Notus, Muses, Love, Amechania, Penia, Ptocheia, Ariadne, Ampelos, Calamos, Poseidon, Beroe, Astraia, Apollo, Helios, Isis, Serapis, Osiris, Anubis, Set, Horus, Persephone, Adonis, Rhea, Adrasteia, Ida, Nemesis, Charites, Hermes, nymphs, Hydaspes, Artemis (Diana), Zeus, centaur, Heracles, Hephaestus, Styx, Metis, Hades, Amphitrite, Athena, Demeter, Aeolus, Hera, Silenus, Bacchus
serves
Aphrodite
allied with
Aphrodite, Dionysus, Ariadne
sibling of
Deimos, Harmonia, Anteros, Phobos
syncretized with
Cupid, Turnu
child of
Zephyrus, Aphrodite, Ares, Iris, Penia, Porus, Poros
served by
Zephyrus
consort of
Psyche

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Mentioned by

and 30 more

Sources

wikipedia (17)
  1. Beroe (Beirut nymph)
  2. Greek city-state patron gods
  3. Harpocrates
  4. Selene
  5. Adonis
  6. List of Greek deities
  7. Adrasteia
  8. Aura (mythology)
  9. Charites
  10. Iris (mythology)
  11. Acontius
  12. Rhodopis and Euthynicus
  13. The Goddess Girls
  14. Porus (mythology)
  15. Zephyrus
  16. Penia
  17. Bacchus and Ariadne
encyclopedia (2)
  1. Anacreon (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  2. Ares (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“Eros struck her twice with arrows of love and a confrontation took place for her love.”

#9000 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Pausanias remarks on an ancient, unworked stone block that represented the divine Eros, patron deity of Thespiae in Boetia, adding that he did not know who "established among the Thespians the custom of worshipping Love more than any other god..."”

#9495 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“One other tale relates the story about the Greek gods. Aphrodite gave a rose to her son Eros, the god of love; he, in turn, gave it to Harpocrates to ensure that his mother's indiscretions (or those of the gods in general, in other accounts) were kept under wraps.”

#16671 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Lucian also has Aphrodite admonish her son Eros for bringing Selene "down from the sky"”

#19036 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Aphrodite in several dialogues, in one of which she complains to the moon goddess Selene that Eros made Persephone fall in love with Adonis”

#22822 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5