by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid. god of love
son of Aphrodite
identified with Roman Cupid.
the personal, relatedness element that characterizes a woman's psychology and a man's anima See logos.
Eros is love Originally Eros was considered to have been one of the great forces spawned from the primordial chaos In this role Eros causes the fury of procreation that brings into being the world as we recognize it In later myths Eros has been reduced to a pleasant but, minor god By Roman times Eros had become Cupid. the Greek equivalent to Cupid. physical love or sexual desire. desire for the good and the beautiful.
A Greek word referring to physical love
lust.
In John Lee's typology of love, the love of beauty.