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'Love, Desire') is the Greek god of love and sex. His Roman counterpart is Cupid ('desire'). [ 4 ] In the earliest account, he is a primordial god , while in later accounts he is described as one of the children of Aphrodite and Ares and, with some of his siblings, was one of the Erotes , a group of winged love gods.
In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Erotes (/ ə ˈ r oʊ t iː z /; Ancient Greek: ἔρωτες, érōtes) are a collective of winged gods associated with love and sexual intercourse. They are part of Aphrodite's retinue. Erotes is the plural of Eros ("Love, Desire"), who as a singular deity has a more complex mythology.
Cydippe with Acontius's apple by Paulus Bor, Rijksmuseum. In Greek mythology, Acontius (Ancient Greek: Ἀκόντιος) was a beautiful youth of the island of Ceos, the hero of a love-story told by Callimachus in a poem of which only fragments remain, and which forms the subject of two of Ovid's Heroides. [1]
This is the story of Echo and Narcissus, a story within another story. The framing in Ovid of the story is as a test of the prophetic abilities of Tiresias, an individual who had been both a man and a woman, and whose sight was taken from him during a contest between Juno and Jove. He had taken Jove's side and Juno, angered, blinded him.
In Greek mythology, Byblis or Bublis (Ancient Greek: Βυβλίς) was a daughter of Miletus. Her mother was either Tragasia, daughter of Celaenus; [1] Cyanee, daughter of the river-god Meander; [2] or Eidothea, daughter of King Eurytus of Caria. [3] She fell in love with Caunus, her twin brother.
There is a story in Greek mythology about two lovers Pyramus and Thisbe which the poet Ovid makes use of in Metamorphoses and this is related to an earlier tragic love story in which both lovers die and the gods take pity on them, so that Thisbe becomes a spring and Pyramus a river.
The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story. The frame story is that Eustace Bright, a Williams College student, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time. All the tales are modified versions of ancient Greek myths:
In Nonnus' version of the story, Helios and Clymene fell in love with each other and got married, with the blessing of Clymene's father Oceanus. Their wedding was attended by the Horae, Naiad nymphs who danced around, the lights of the sky such as Helios' sister Selene and Eosphorus (the planet Venus), the Hesperides, and Clymene's family.