Anteros
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God of Harmonia, several paternal half-siblings and several maternal half-siblings |
In
Myth
Anteros was the son of
Anteros, with Eros, was one of a host of winged love gods called
An altar to Anteros was put up by the metics in Athens in commemoration of the spurned love of the metic Timagoras , who was rejected by the Athenian Meles. Upon hearing Timagoras' declaration of love for him, the young man mockingly ordered him to throw himself down from the top of a tall rock. Seeing Timagoras dead, Meles repented and threw himself down from the same rock.[5]
Describing the nature of the emotion, Plato asserts that it is the result of the great love for another person. The lover, inspired by beauty, is filled with divine love and "filling the soul of the loved one with love in return." As a result, the loved one falls in love with the lover, though the love is only spoken of as friendship. They experience pain when the two are apart, and relief when they are together, the mirror image of the lover's feelings, is anteros, or "counter-love".[6]
Legacy
Anteros is the subject of the
References
- .
- ISBN 9781000707564. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ^ Aelian, On Animals, 14. 28
- ^ Dwight, Mary Ann; Dickson White, Andrew (1849). Grecian and Roman mythology. New York: Putnam. p. 266.
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.30.1.
- ^ Phaedrus, 255.
- ISBN 9780571233687.
Because of the bow and the nudity... everybody assumed it was Eros, the Greek god of love.
Further reading
- Stephenson, Craig E. (2011). Anteros: A forgotten myth. New York. ISBN 978-0-415-57230-9.)
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