Eros Sentence Examples

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  • In later times they are often represented drawing the car of Dionysus, or bound and ridden by Eros, in allusion to their drunken and amorous habits.

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  • In the Aristophanic parody (Birds, 691) the winged Eros in conjunction with gloomy Chaos brings forth the race of birds.

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  • In art Eros is represented as a beautiful youth or a winged child.

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  • The deity most worshipped at Thespiae, according to Pausanias, was Eros, whose primitive image was an unwrought stone.

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  • I've started a record label... called ' Voodoo Eros ' .

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  • Her power is irresistible, even greater than that of the gods; to her was due the strife (battles with Titans, Giants) that raged amongst them of old, before the rule of love began; the world revolves round the spindle, which she holds in her lap. According to the Egyptian theory, she is one of the four deities present at the birth of every human being, her companions being the Daemon (guardian spirit), Tyche (Fortune) and Eros.

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  • Eros (also called Cupid by the Romans) married Psyche, who was a beautiful mortal princess.

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  • If you are going for Eros, sometimes buying something racy or different than your dearest would normally wear might be just the thing.

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  • From that time, apparently under the influence of Athenian sculptors, he was conceived as the ideal of a youthful warrior, and was for a time associated with Aphrodite and Eros.

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  • This image is made up from the many pictures received from the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft as it orbits the asteroid Eros.

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  • A mosaic of four images of the near-Earth asteroid Eros, taken by the NEAR probe on 14 February 2000.

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  • The center piece to the circus is the famous statue of Eros, the pagan god of love.

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  • Here is found the lower part of a marble sarcophagus bearing a picture of Eros.

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  • These original gods were Tartarus, Gaia (earth), Eros (perhaps - also given as son of Ares and Aphrodite), Nyx (night) and Erebus.

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  • By this marriage, she conceived Eros, Himeros (the twin brother of Eros, and known as the god of desire), Deimos (god of fear), Phobos (god of panic), Harmonia (goddess of marital and civic harmony) and Anteros (god of reciprocal love).

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  • Aphrodite and Ares are given as parents of Eros (god of love).

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  • In Greek mythology, Psyche and Eros had a relationship surrounded by butterfly imagery.

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  • The myth goes that Psyche, or Psykhe, was once a beautiful, mortal princess who eventually married Eros, the god of love, after a series of despairing events.

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  • In 1898 the remarkable minor planet Eros was discovered, which, on those rare occasions when in opposition near perihelion, would approach the earth to a distance of 0 .

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  • His best work is found in the volume of odes called The Unknown Eros, which is full not only of passages but of entire poems in which exalted thought is expressed in poetry of the richest and most dignified melody.

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  • The measures were made with the Cape heliometer and have never been superseded, for the latest results with the minor planet Eros exactly confirm Gill's result-8.80" - while they decidedly diminish the associated probable error.

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  • The planet Eros was discovered in 1899, and proved to have an orbit between the earth and Mars, while every one of the other five or six hundred.

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  • The town contained many works of art, among them the Eros of Praxiteles, dedicated by Phryne in her native place; it was one of the most famous statues in the ancient world, and drew crowds of people to Thespiae.

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  • But an unlooked-for fresh opportunity was afforded by the discovery in 1898 of the singularly circumstanced minor planet Eros, which occasionally approaches the earth more nearly than any other heavenly body except the moon.

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  • While on the march between Heracleia and Byzantium, at the beginning of the following year, he was assassinated through the treachery of his secretary Eros, who, in order to escape the discovery of his own irregularities, incited certain officers against the emperor by showing them a forged list, on which their names appeared as marked out for death.

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  • His brother is Anteros, the god of mutual love, who punishes those who do not return the love of others, without which Eros could not thrive; he is sometimes described as the opponent of Eros.

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  • The chief associates of Eros are Pothos and Himeros (Longing and Desire), Peitho (Persuasion), the Muses and the Graces; he himself is in constant attendance on Aphrodite.

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  • In Alexandrian poetry Eros is at one time the powerful god who conquers all, at another the elfish god of love.

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  • For the Roman adaptation of Eros see Cupid, and for the later legend of Cupid and Psyche see Psyche.

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  • Other famous representations are the Vatican torso and Eros trying his bow (in the Capitoline museum) .

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  • Gerhard, Uber den Gott Eros (1850); articles in Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie, Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire des antiquites, and Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie.

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  • Sneaking up on him as he slept, she discovered his true beautiful God-form but tragically broke their bond causing Eros to flutter away.

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  • There was also a bronze statue of Eros by Lysippus.

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  • The bride sins as in Eros and Psyche, Freja and Oddur, Pururavas and Urvasi.

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  • Eros Guide.com This is a general portal website that guides you to escorts found throughout the United States and abroad.

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  • In the Villa Ludovisi statue (after the style of Lysippus) he appears seated, in an attitude of thought; his arms are laid aside, and Eros peeps out at his feet.

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