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Aphrodite's winged little son Eros, the god of romantic love, is similarly trying to assist his mother fight off her assaulter by grasping Pan's right horn and pushing him away. [1] [3] Pan leans on a tree trunk (the statue's marble support) covered with animal's skin, and has left his hunting stick at the foot of the trunk. [1]
In another myth, Eros and Aphrodite played in a meadow, and had a light competition about which would gather the most flowers. Eros was in the lead thanks to his swift wings, but then a nymph named Peristera ("dove") gathered some flowers herself and handed them over to Aphrodite, making her victorious. Eros turned Peristera into a dove. [34]
3335. Group of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros. Parian marble. Found in the 'House of the Poseidoniastai of Beryttos' (Beirut), Dolus. Traces of colour can be made out in many places. The nude goddess Aphrodite attempts to fend off the goat-footed god Pan who makes erotic advances to her.
Further along the Peripatos, a narrow path leads up to a terrace 30m x 14m with an open air sanctuary. It was excavated by Oscar Broneer in 1932 who identified the site with Aphrodite and Eros. [15] Also identified as the shrine of Aphrodite in the Gardens after the passage in Pausanias describing the rites of the arrhephoroi. [16]
Anteros was the son of Ares and Aphrodite in Greek mythology, and given to his brother Eros as a playmate because Eros was lonely. In another version, Anteros arose from mutual feelings between Poseidon and Nerites. [14] Physically, Anteros was depicted as similar to Eros in every way, though sometimes with longer hair and butterfly wings.
From the speech of Pausanias “[181b]...Now the Love that belongs to the Popular Aphrodite is in very truth [181b] popular and does his work at haphazard: this is the Love we see in the meaner sort of men; who, in the first place, love women as well as boys; secondly, where they love, they are set on the body more than the soul; and thirdly, they choose the most witless people they can find ...
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The subject of these paintings were Eros fighting Pan in the presence of Aphrodite, Homer seated with the symbols of the Iliad and the Odyssey with two fishermen in front of him, thought to refer to the legendary contest between Homer and Hesiod and Bacchus with his iconic panther.