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Ovid's account of the story is the fullest and most detailed of the surviving ones. According to him, Clytie was a lover of the god of the sun Helios, until Aphrodite made him fall in love with a Persian mortal princess called Leucothoe, in revenge for him informing her husband Hephaestus of her illicit affair with his brother Ares, the god of ...
In Greek mythology, Himeros (Ancient Greek: Ἱμερος, lit. 'desire') is one of the seven Erotes, a group of winged love deities, and part of Aphrodite's procession. Often described as "sweet", he is the god and personification of desire and lust.
English: Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths, restored and retold by Andrew Calimach, Haiduk Press, LLC, New Rochelle, 2002 ISBN 0-9714686-0-5 (LCCN 2001119267) Date 1 January 2002
'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.
In ancient Greek mythology, Rhodopis (Ancient Greek: Ῥοδῶπις, romanized: Rhodôpis, lit. 'rosy-faced', [1] Ancient Greek pronunciation: [r̥odɔ̂ːpis]) and Euthynicus [a] (Ancient Greek: Εὐθύνικος, romanized: Euthúnikos) are two young hunters sworn to chastity who incurred the wrath of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. [2]
Acis and Galatea (/ ˈ eɪ s ɪ s /, / ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː. ə / [1] [2]) are characters from Greek mythology later associated together in Ovid's Metamorphoses.The episode tells of the love between the mortal Acis and the Nereid (sea-nymph) Galatea; when the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit.
The entirely invented story is said by the Louvre to derive from the German work by Jacques de Vitry in the 13th century. [4] [5] The French work Le Lai d'Aristote [] (The Lay of Aristotle) is known from manuscripts dating from as early as 1220, attributed by scholars to either Henri d'Andeli or Henri de Valenciennes [].