Eros
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Eros is the Greek god of sensual love and desire. He is a son of Ares and Aphrodite and is the brother of Adrestia, Anteros, Phobos, Deimos and Harmonia. In the Roman mythology, he is known as Cupid. Eros is one of the Erotes, a group of winged gods, which includes also his brother Anteros. The Roman equivalent of this group is called the Cupids.
Mythology
Eros was ordered by his mother, Aphrodite, whom after becoming jealous of a human woman, Psyche and her beauty that rivaled the goddess, told Eros to make her fall in love with an ugly and unworthy man. Eros instead, fell in love with the woman himself after accidentally pricking himself with his own arrow after shooting her. After various trials and tribulation on both lover's parts, they overcome them and are eventually married.[1]
Legacy and influence
During the Peloponnesian War, the Spartan misthios Kassandra visited the altar dedicated to Eros and Anteros. She also recovered a bow in the Andania Mine which was dedicated to Eros.[2]
When the zodiac was created, the story of Eros and Aphrodite fleeing the monster Typhon by becoming fishes and leaping into the sea was used as the basis for the sign of Pisces.[3]
By the 2nd century CE, Eros and Psyche's love story was written about by Apuleius in his book, The Golden Ass. A book that the Assassin Mentor Ezio Auditore da Firenze would later purchase a copy of in the early 16th century.[4]
In 2012 Clay Kaczmarek included the story of Psyche and Cupid in a set of puzzles he'd hidden within the Animus for his successor to find. In Clay's puzzle it was suggested that their story was one of those in which "the seeds were planted as two worlds became one."[5] In a former puzzle, Cupid was excluded from a list of individuals known to have possessed an Apple of Eden.[6]
Gallery
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Cupid beside Venus in Sacred and Profane Love by Titian -
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Cupid and Pysche by Giulio Romano -
Mars Venus en Amor by Pieter Isaacsz -
Eros (bottom) amongst the Greek pantheon -
Eros and Aphrodite engraved on stone as the sign Pisces
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed II (painting only)
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations (painting only)
- Assassin's Creed: Pirates (mentioned only)
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (mentioned only)
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