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Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: S. Smith, William, Sir, 1813-1893
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Eros. (Museum CapitoUnum, vol. iv. tav. 57.) torches which no one can touch with impunity.His arrows are of different power: some aregolden, and kindle love in the heart they wound;others are blunt, and produce aversion anddisaster (Eur. Iph. Aul. 548; Ov. Met. i. 468).Gentler attributes were flowers, as belonging tothe god of spring, the time of love, and the lyrefor love songs. In art he was at first generallyrepresented as a beautiful boy approaching theage of a young man; and from an early period,though it is uncertain how early, with wings,which usually denote a fjadfxav rather than a6e6s- Phidias placed on the base of the statueof Zeus at Olympia Eros receiving Aphrodite
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Eros (as Dionysus) bridling the lion. (A mosaic, from Pompeii.) as she rises from the sea (Paus. v. 11, 8). It isprobable that the silver medallion in the Louvre(see woodcut under Aphrodite, p. 86) representsthis piece of sculpture. In the following century ERYSICHTHON the statues of Eros by Praxiteles at Thespiaeand Parium were especially famous (Plin. xxxvi.23), represented no doubt as a youth. Both asa boy and as a child he is often represented asholding or stringing his bow : specially famousinstances are that in the Vatican and that atBerlin, perhaps after Lysippus (Paus. ix. 27, 3).In later Greek and Roman times it becamecommon to represent a child Eros with a numberof winged Erotes, like a fairy-tale scene, en-gaged in any sort of work, making wreaths orcarpentering. On one gem he is whetting hisarrows (cf. Hor. Od. ii. 8, 16). A beautifulmosaic from Pompeii represents him as a childriding on a lion, and with all the attributes ofDionysus, the cup, the ivy crown, the thyrsus,an

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