Greek mythology
Eros
Primordial god of love and desire
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Group
- Divine · Olympians
- Appears in
- Eros and Psyche · Birth of the Cosmos
- Places
- The Primordial Void
- Objects
- Arrows of Eros
- Family tree
- See in the family tree
Listen to “Eros and Psyche” in the app
Eros is desire itself, in the oldest tales one of the first powers to emerge from Chaos, the force that draws all things together and stirs creation into being. In later myth he becomes the winged son of Aphrodite, whose gold-tipped arrows make gods and mortals fall helplessly in love, and who himself loses his heart to the mortal Psyche.
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Eros and Psyche
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- Who is Eros?
- Eros is desire itself, in the oldest tales one of the first powers to emerge from Chaos, the force that draws all things together and stirs creation into being.
- Which mythology does Eros belong to?
- Eros belongs to Greek mythology.
- Which stories does Eros appear in?
- Eros appears in Eros and Psyche, Birth of the Cosmos, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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