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Eros ( / ˈ ɪər ɒ s /  or  US / ˈ <span class="IPA nopopups" style="font-family:'LucidaSansUnicode','ArialUnicodeMS';"><span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/ɛr/ 'err' in 'merry'">ɛr <span class="IPA nopopups" style="font-family:'LucidaSansUnicode','ArialUnicodeMS';"><span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/ɒ/ short 'o' in 'body'">ɒ <span class="IPA nopopups" style="font-family:'LucidaSansUnicode','ArialUnicodeMS';">s <span class="IPA" style="font-family:'LucidaSansUnicode','ArialUnicodeMS';" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">;  Ancient Greek<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">:  <span lang="grc" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;" lang="grc">Ἔρως <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">, "Desire"), in  Greek mythology<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">, was the  Greek god<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> of love. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">His  Roman<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> counterpart was  Cupid<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lar_2-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">[2] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> ("desire"). Some myths make him a  primordial god<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">, while in other myths, he is the son of  Aphrodite<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">.

Primordial god
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">According to  Hesiod<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> (c. 700 BC), one of the most ancient of all Greek sources, Eros was a primordial god, that is, he had no parents. He was the fourth god to come into existence, coming after  Chaos<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">,  Gaia<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> (the Earth), and Tartarus<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> (the Abyss or the Underworld).

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">Homer does not mention Eros. However,  Parmenides<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> (c. 400 BC), one of the  pre-socratic<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> philosophers, makes Eros the first of all the gods to come into existence.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">The <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">  Orphic<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">and <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">  Eleusinian<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">Mysteries featured Eros as a very original god, but not quite primordial, since he was the child of Night ( Nyx<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">). <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Theoi_3-1" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">  Aristophanes<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">(c. 400 BC), influenced by <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">  Orphism<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">, relates the birth of Eros and then of the entire human race: <p style="line-height:1.5em;">At the beginning there was only Chaos, Night (Nyx), Darkness (Erebus), and the Abyss (Tartarus). Earth, the Air and Heaven had no existence. Firstly, blackwinged Night laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Darkness, and from this, after the revolution of long ages, sprang the graceful Love (Eros) with his glittering golden wings, swift as the whirlwinds of the tempest. He mated in the deep Abyss with dark Chaos, winged like himself, and thus hatched forth our race, which was the first to see the light.