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Eros

 

            Eros was the Greek god of love. Some people say he was one of the first gods to emerge from primeval Chaos, hatched from the world egg, and is considered to be one of the oldest .
             gods. There are other theories relating to his coming about: He is held to be the son of Aphrodite and Hermes, or Aphrodite and Ares, or even Aphrodite and Zeus. A story even holds that he was the son of Iris, goddess of the Rainbow, and Zephyrus, the West Wind.
             In recent mythology, Eros is shown as the son of Aphrodite and Ares, and is one of the younger Gods. He is shown as a playful, winged boy with a bow and arrows. He wounds both gods and men with his unerring and irresistible arrows of desire. He has two sets of arrows: golden arrows with dove feathers for love, and leaden arrows with owl feathers for indifference. .
             It was Eros who shot an arrow of love into the heart of the most beautiful mortal woman Helen, making her instantly fall in love with the Trojan prince Paris. This infatuation led to Paris and Helen running away to Troy, which infuriated Greeks who began the Trojan War in retaliation.
            


Essays Related to Eros

1. Statues - Eros Sleeping and Old Market Woman

I chose to compare the statue of Eros Sleeping and the statue of the Old Market Woman, because of the similarities they hold due to the age they were both created in. Eros Sleeping is a Greek sculpture made some time between third and second century B.C.E. ... Eros, in fact is a god, but in this portrayal he is nothing but a defeated little child. ... Due to the fact that Eros Sleeping is made of bronze, I can imagine it was sturdy enough to survive and remain in such good shape. ... The Old Market Woman statue like the Statue of Eros Sleeping, is an accurate characterization of age and beauty...

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  • Grade Level: High School

2. Love: Modern Day Myth?

That's why even the name Eros has been associated with "love at first sight." ... Psyche too fell madly in love with Eros even though she could not see him. ... Psyche was amazed to see that her husband was actually Eros, son of Aphrodite. Psyche started to cry with relief and awoke Eros with her tears." ... Eros is what we know today as the Roman god, Cupid. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

3. A True Romantic

When I was assigned this topic to write about, I immediately thought of Eros. ... Philos and Agape are really more spiritual in nature, but Eros, now that's a physical love. I envision Eros as the sweaty fumbling in the back of old Chevrolets, and the firelit evenings where everything seems to go just right and the sex is perfect, And even in the dark, rent by the hour hotel rooms where men and women with no names briefly join and then quickly part, never knowing the other persons name. All of these things are Eros to me. ... The fact is that romance, or Eros, is different things to diffe...

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  • Grade Level: High School

4. Love and Hate

The words that translate into love are Eros, Agape, and Philia. Eros is the sexual aspect of love and having to so with lovemaking and intercourse. ... This Poem is taking the sexual and lust part of love in which the Greeks defined as Eros. ... The narrator's desire is a key element in this poem and that is also true for Eros style love. ... In conclusion the Greeks three words or different aspects of love Eros, meaning the sexual aspect of love. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

5. Culinary Orgasm

There it pooled slowly and richly, sliding together like mercury slowly drawn by Eros into eternity. Fully knowing what lie ahead, I continued to follow the footsteps of Eros until I lost my trail. ... The warm, thick liquid of Eros reached into her abdominal crevices for the first time. ... Eros lowered me further down with the liquid of vitality. ... I licked clear the remaining chocolate and ate the final strawberry as I prepared to join Eros in the crescent of the underworld. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

6. The Symposium: An Ascent of Beauty, Truth and Wisdom

These philosophers talk about Eros (Love) and match their wits to see who can give a greater eulogy of Eros. Through these speeches, we hear different opinions as to where Eros is from, who his parents are, adjectives that describe his qualities, myths on why Eros exists, questions to why Eros exists and more symbolic stories. ... In his speech, Agathon states that Eros has many virtues, one being wisdom. Through his speech Agathon tries to tell the audience that Eros is wise and whomever Eros is bestowed upon should in turn possess this wisdom. ... On that account, Agathon's main poi...

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7. Love Rollo May

Agape or Caritas or Care, Sex or lust or libido, Eros and Death, and last is Philia. ... "In May's terms, Sex has been separated from Eros" (Monte, 1999, P.594.) Eros is the Greek god of love (a progenitor, a creator, and the source of life). ... In May's four forms of love one is sex, but sex is also mentioned in another one of the three remaining Eros and Death. In Eros and Death one of the three forms of the relationship between death and love is a defensively disguised connection between the two. ...

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  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

8. Ovid's Amores

Ovid's Amores The main concept that surrounds Classical Greek literature is the fact that Eros, or love, is the enemy against all reason. ... Through these poems, Ovid illustrated the power of Eros that can inevitably destroy not only a man's reasoning, but also his dignity and his soul as well. ... It is here when the notion of Eros begins to set into place and the narrator drowns in his own madness. ...

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9. Birth of Beauty

1 Eros, or love, is the topic for discussion in Plato's Symposium. In a series of speeches, men debate the superlative meaning of eros the entire night. ... Composed of the ideas and thoughts of the other speeches, Diotima's speech is the epitome of eros. ... Therefore if eros is beautiful then birth must be completed "in beauty." ... Throughout the Symposium, eros is constantly used in conjunction with homosexuality. ...

  • Word Count: 925
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School