So first off i dispise Platos take on Mythology but i do love his Philosphy, i also though hate him as a person. Secondly he wrote Eros' birth like fanfiction....
VII. SON OF PORUS & PENIA
Plato, Symposium 178 (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.)
Its actually quite funny and i read it for a good laugh, especially when you realize that so many mythogrophers and great poets were talking to eachother (except you Hesiod fuck off for the most part) about where Eros came from and they all generally had the same idea that hes Aphrodites son or at least born the same time she was, and potentially from her as she emerged fully formed and pregnant...others say he was born of Chaos and Nyx
My belife is he emerged at the same time as Aphrodite but not directly related, however due to Aphrodite being born first she matured and took Eros as her own. Tbus the maternal bond, they feel like mother and son but theres something deeper, and that something is none of my buisness.
Eros was the mischievous ancient Greek god of love, a minion and constant companion of the goddess Aphrodite. He lit the flame of love in th
Seneca, Phaedra 186 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st A.D.) :
Im torn on this one, to an extent i belive it, but the full story is that Phsyke is then married off to Eros binding them togeather forever and I'm just not willing to belive that because there are plenty of people who claim to be his lovers, ive asked him with divination, and hes responded that its true.
From my divination with him its more so that he has many lovers and Phsyke is ok with it in part because she knows she is amoungst the primary if not the primary. So more of a poly take it looks like, wich is...most of the Greek Pantheon, just butchered for sake of dramma.
Side tangent
Think about it, what stirrs more dramma than merital love issues, why write them how they are, why write them content with who they love when money could be made by exadurating certain aspects...dp i fully belive this theory? No not really, no divination or any real source to back it, just an emotional opinion thats quite flimsy in reality.
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3. 28 ff ff (trans. Rieu) (Greek epic C3rd B.C.) :
Now THIS i belive, as Athena is seen multie times as a goddess who does not experience sexual attraction whatsoever, im not sure if im in agreement with it being because she sprang from Zeus' head but i think thats a possibility, just wondering if it was a goft she requested seeing as how shes so rightfully proud about it.
(Also its an epic not a collecrion of folk based mythos wich means in my eyes its less credible. As they are more drammatized versions of events rather than mildly drammatized or exadurated)
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 7. 110 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
This is another im prone to belive, as it confirms a lot of divine interactions I've had with Hermes telling me that Zeus had a reason deeper than i understood for going to the extent he did with some women, others not so much but he was the king and that was his right, a different time does not excuse actions however it does provide context to what happened. Something that seems to be lacking in most conversations on Zeus.
So i belive Eros is perhaps an agent of Aphrodite or Fate itself, and Fates dictated this would happen, perhaps as a form of punishment? Unlikely...perhaps as just that is the way fate goes...or Aphrodite whispered to Eros something for her own reasons, im not sure, id have to ask but that also isnt exactly my buisness. This is time spent with them, not an investigation of my family.
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 7. 267 ff :
Again to an extent i belive this, part of my doubt comes from Roman interpertation but i find that Dionysuaca tends to be somewhat accurate when put against divination.
[Personal Note]
Its nice to see Eros depicted here as he is often shown as some one incredibly powerfull, born of the sea with Aphrodite always wowing the gods and surprising them with his unrelenting power. Its something i can relate to to an extent, i worry some days im insane i worry im mad. When they tell me theyr impressed, that they should raise their expectations and standards. I fear im pompus or full of myself, but when i begin to wander that path of thought, Apollo tends to step in and command me to be still for a moment and listen. That he is truly impressed that im not lying, that they love me and they wish i would accept their love rather than run.
Aphrodite has been trying to set me up with Eros for months now, and im just uncomfortable around other men...but she had it and she set me up as did Zeus i know he had a hand in it somehow...maybe i was setup so much because Eros is some one i can relate to, some one i can talk to about things no mortal could really understand, not really...and maybe even some things the gods wouldnt quite know, such as Athena who seemed to have been born powerfull and respected, expected to preform as she was so directly born of Zeus, im not sure...
The Anacreontea, Fragment 28 (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric II) (C5th B.C.) :
THIS US SUCH A WHOLESOME INTERACTION i adore it and it sounds exactly like them!!! Ahaha this is so validating it's such a lovely interaction between them
Ahh this article goes on and on and on i will have to come back to it and use this post as a digital bookmark...
This has been so fun and so wonderfull i can't wait to read more
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