Scull, Sarah Amelia · Philadelphia : Porter & Coates · leaf 295
ing Eros, the son of Aphrodite. Thislast conception of Eros was at first represented by ayouth whose face was radiant with a beauty of which itis said, It comes from God and it leads to God. Later, a lighter ideal of Aphrodites son, better knownas Cupid, was represented as a mischievous boy with… … Eros, of his brother, while a second makes him the avengerof unrequited love. The first theory is favored by astatement of Pausanias: At Elis there is a Cupid andthe divinity which is called Anteros. Cupid holds inhis hand a branch of a palm tree, and Anteros endeavorsto take it from him.…
Mythology, Greek · Emblems
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