Cupid Eros and other Erotes
They’re many similarities between Roman and Greek mythology in fact the main difference is usually just the name. This is very evident in the relationship between Cupid and Eros.
Both Cupid and Eros are said to be the offspring of the Goddess of love and the God of war. Cupid parents were Venus the roman Goddess of love and Mars the Roman God of war while Eros’s parents were according to some myths where Aphrodite the Greek Goddess of love and Ares the Greek God of war. Although as with most Greek myths the lineage of any god can be question Eros is sometime seen as the primordial god of sexual love and beauty.
According to Hesiod’s Theogony, the most famous Greek creation myth, Eros sprang forth from the primordial Chaos together with Gaia, the Earth, and Tartarus, the underworld; according to Aristophanes’ play The Birds (c. 414 BC), he burgeons forth from an egg laid by Nyx (Night) conceived with Erebus (Darkness).
The major difference between Cupid and Eros is the way they are portrayed Cupid is often seen as a putto ((pl. putti) is a figure of a human baby or toddler, almost always male, often naked and having wings, found especially in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art.) while Eros is depicted as a full grown man both Buy Generic Drugs Without Prescription are almost always depicted as naked.
The symbols of both are the Bow, Arrows, Candles, Hearts, Cupids, Wings and Kisses and have dominion over love and desire. Even the myth of their love is the same including their offspring.
First seen in Apuleius’ Latin novel, The Golden Ass, The myth states that When Cupid’s mother Venus / Eros’s mother Aphrodite became jealous of the princess Psyche, who was so beloved by her subjects that they forgot to worship Venus / Aphrodite, she ordered Cupid / Eros to make Psyche fall in love with the vilest thing in the world. While Cupid / Eros was sneaking into her room to shoot Psyche with a golden arrow, he accidentally scratches himself with his own arrow and falls deeply in love with her.
Following that, Cupid / Eros visited Psyche every night while she slept. Speaking to her so that she could not see him, he told her never to try to see him. Psyche, though, incited by her two older sisters who told her Cupid was a monster, tried to look at him and angered Cupid. When he left, she looked all over the known world for him until at last the leader of the gods, Jupiter / Zeus, gave Psyche the gift of immortality so that she could be with him. Together they had a daughter, Voluptas, or Hedone, (meaning pleasure) and Psyche became a goddess.
The relation between Psyche and Cupid / Eros may have been the origins of the story of beauty and the beast.
Cupid and Eros have become so much a part of our lives that the symbol of a wing baby or wing naked male with an arrow is called Cupid or Eros so much so that even Christian influences fail to make an impact if you ask most people what statute stands in Piccadilly most will say Eros. The statue is actually The Angel of Christian Charity but is actually meant to be Eros brother Anteros.
This sideway step in to Cupids / Eros siblings that us in to a group of gods none as Erotes. Erotes are a group of winged gods and demi-gods from Classical mythology, associated with love and sex, and part of Aphrodite’s entourage.
In this Group of Erotes are Cupid / Eros, Anteros, Himeros and Pothos the Erotes are often assigned aspects love in general all aspects of love are given to Cupid / Eros but in the Erotes each god is assigned a specific area of love.
Eros – primordial god of lust, beauty, love, and intercourse; protector of homosexual love between men. Eros was depicted as often carrying a lyre or bow and arrow. He was also depicted accompanied by dolphins, flutes, roosters, roses, and torches
Anteros – god of requited love, literally “love returned” or “counterpart love”, avenger of unrequited love. Anteros was depicted as having butterfly wings armed with a golden club or having arrows of lead.
Himeros – is the god of sexual desire or unrequited love. Himeros is depiced winged like his brother Eros but wore a colourful headband called a taenia worn by atheletes.
Pothos - sexual longing, yearning and desire. In some myths he is seen as the sone of Eros
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Originally posted 2011-02-07 10:48:42. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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