to C1st A.D.) :Nonnus, Dionysiaca 11.
However, if the lover achieves possession of the beloved's The classical conception of love's arrows was developed further by the According to this description, love originates upon the eyes of the lady when encountered by those of her future lover. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :Nonnus, Dionysiaca 32. Sculptors preferred the image of the bow-armed boy, whereas mosaic artists favoured the figure of a winged EROS (Erôs), in Latin, AMOR or CUPI′DO, the god of love. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician C3rd A.D.) :Philostratus the Younger, Imagines 7 (trans.
Eye color: blue. Greek Lyric III Ibycus Frag 324) (Greek scholia) : Sappho, Fragment 198 (from Scholiast on Theocritus) (trans. thanks! I think He'll have muscle look good and have wings. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :Hesiod, Theogony 176 ff (trans. 1 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C.
§ 1, vi. :Ovid, Metamorphoses 10. In Plato, eros is a spiritual energy initially, which then "falls" downward; whereas in Freud eros is a physical energy which is "sublimated" upward. The (lack of) Physical Traits of House Arryn. In the classical world, erotic love was generally referred to as a kind of madness or Whether by "first sight" or by other routes, passionate love often had disastrous results according to the classical authors. The love thus generated is conveyed on bright beams of light from her eyes to his, through which it passes to take up its abode in his heart.In some medieval texts, the gaze of a beautiful woman is compared to the sight of a These images continued to be circulated and elaborated upon in the literature and iconography of the The rhetorical antithesis between the pleasure and pain from love's dart continued through the 17th century, as for example, in these classically inspired images from In his 1925 paper "The Resistances to Psycho-Analysis",However, F. M. Cornford finds the standpoints of Plato and of Freud to be "diametrically opposed" with regard to eros.
Greek Lyric I Sappho, Fragment 198) (Greek scholia) :Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. That very night, after their lovemaking, Psyche approached the blissfully asleep Eros with a lamp and a razor. Eros was the mischievous ancient Greek god of love, a minion and constant companion of the goddess Aphrodite. Gerber, Vol.
Theoi Project © Copyright 2000 - 2017 Aaron J. Atsma, Netherlands & New Zealand(Ibycus Frag 284, Anacreontea Frag 44, Apollonius Rhodius 3.82, Pausanias 9.27.1, Plato Phaedrus, Philostratus Younger 8, Oppian Halieutica 4.10, Hyginus Astronomica 2.30, Ovid Metamorphoses 1.452 & 5.363, Seneca Phaedra 274, Statius Silvae 1.2.51, Apuleius 11.218, Nonnus Dionysiaca 4.238 & 33.4)(possibly Hesiod Theogony 176, Sappho Frag 198, Nonnus Dionysiaca 33.4 & 41.128)Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes (trans. 28 ff ff (trans. Nevertheless, some historians have suggested that women may have been the objects of love more often than was previously believed and that men's love for women may have been an ideal, although not one realized much in fact.Eros, understood in this sense, differed considerably from the common meaning of the word in the Greek language of Plato's time. 218 ff (trans. In Plato, eros is a spiritual energy initially, which then "falls" downward; whereas in Freud eros is a physical energy which is "sublimated" upward.In essence, Jung's concept of eros is not dissimilar to the Platonic one. 150 ff (trans. Lord_Ravenstone Lord_Ravenstone Council Member; Members; 1,633 posts #21; Posted April 6, 2016. "The Resistances to Psycho-Analysis", in Cornford, F.M. 27. :Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. Hair color? They are said to be more on the bulky side. :Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. Rieu) (Greek epic C3rd B.C.) 25 (trans. Eros is ultimately the desire for wholeness, and although it may initially take the form of passionate love, it is more truly a desire for "psychic relatedness", a desire for interconnection and interaction with other sentient beings. i. Campbell, Vol. 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. 23. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. Favorite Answer . Greek Elegiac) (Greek elegy C6th B.C.) In the same metaphysical sense he is conceived by Aristotle (We must especially notice the connexion of Eros with Anteros, with which persons usually connect the notion of "Love returned." Greek Lyric I) (C6th B.C.) First, says Hesiod (According to the former, Eros was one of the fundamental causes in the formation of the world, inasmuch as he was the uniting power of love, which brought order and harmony among the conflicting elements of which Chaos consisted. Read full article.