Family
The family of Eros
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 23
Kinship in an account 23
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (child) Acmon Greek deity, father of Uranos
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child of (child) Aether primordial Greek deity, personification of the upper air -
child of (child) Aphrodite Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation -
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child of (child) Ares Greek god of war and combat -
child of (child) Chaos Greek primordial deity -
child of (child) Enyo Greek goddess of war and destruction - child of (child) Erebos primordial deity in Greek mythology
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child of (child) Eris Greek goddess of discord -
child of (child) Iris the personification of the rainbow in ancient Greek religion and mythology -
child of (child) Nyx Greek goddess of the night - child of (child) Penia Greek goddess and personification of poverty
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child of (child) Porus deity -
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child of (child) Zephyrus Greek god of the wind from the west, spring, fertility, procreation, luck, rebirth, vegetation, flowers, bees and honey - parent of (father) Hedone Greek divinity; personification of pleasure
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parent of (child) Voluptas Roman deity, personification of pleasure - partner of (spouse) partner of: recorded as none
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partner of (spouse) Psyche mythical lover of Eros/Cupid -
sibling of Anteros The God of Selfless Love in Greek mythology - sibling of Erebos primordial deity in Greek mythology
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sibling of Gaia Greek primordial deity, the personification of the Earth -
sibling of Himeros son of Ares and Aphrodite, represents sexual desire - sibling of Nyx Greek goddess of the night
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sibling of Pothos Greek divinity, desire/yearning personified
Connections
How Eros connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 2
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
23 statements on this record
- 8 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 15 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
Keep exploring
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The Olympians and their Roman equivalents, the mystery cults, and the poets whose accounts disagree.