ABSTRACT
The god of love (eros in Greek means love of the sexual kind). The Romans called him Amor (‘love’) or Cupido (‘desire’). There are several varying accounts of this divinity in Greek tradition. Hesiod says that Eros was born at the beginning of time out of Chaos (the Void), together with Tartarus and Gaia; and that he brought about the union of the original father and mother, Uranus (‘sky’) and Gaia (‘earth’), and presided over the subsequent marriages of their offspring, the gods, and, eventually, of men. In this tradition Eros is little more than a personification of the generative power which infuses living creatures and causes their reproduction; he antedates Aphrodite, the goddess of love.
