. Eros. (From a gem.) his altar, placed in or near gymnasia. Herehe symbolised the affection and regard betweencompanions, which led to the nobler emulationin warlike prowess: hence the Spartans sacri-ficed to Eros before the combat (Athen. p. 561).The Eros of later poets, who gave rise to thatnotion of the god which is most familiar to us,is one of the youngest of all the gods. InPindar and Aeschylus, however, he appearsonly as a personification of feeling, not as a realBeing, and this is also the case on archaic Eros whetti
. Eros. (From a gem.) his altar, placed in or near gymnasia. Herehe symbolised the affection and regard betweencompanions, which led to the nobler emulationin warlike prowess: hence the Spartans sacri-ficed to Eros before the combat (Athen. p. 561).The Eros of later poets, who gave rise to thatnotion of the god which is most familiar to us,is one of the youngest of all the gods. InPindar and Aeschylus, however, he appearsonly as a personification of feeling, not as a realBeing, and this is also the case on archaic Eros whetting hia dnrte. 1 •? la Chaascc, Gemmc A nliche.) As a personal deity he is prominent in Sophocles,and still more so in Euripides. The parentageof this Eros is very differently described. He isusually represented as a son of Aphrodite, buthis father is either Ares, Zeus, or Hermes ( p. 178 ; Cic. N. D. iii. 28). In this stageEros has nothing to do with uniting the dis-cordant elements of the universe, or with tin-higher sympathy or love which binds humankind together, but he is purely the god of 326 EROS sensual love, who bears sway over the inha-bitants of Olympus as well as over men and allliving creatures. His arms consist of arrows,which he carries in a golden quiver, and of
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