Eros

Greek Goddess of Beauty, Love and Eternal Youth”). Along with beauty, Aphrodite possessed a magical girdle that attracted people to her or to whomever was wearing the girdle at the time. According to greekmytholgy.com, Aphrodite was also the mother of Eros, also known as Cupid. Aphrodite is indispensable to Olympus due to her beauty, her estates and attributes, and her many children.…

playwright in tragedy. He is described as a young beautiful man with a superior command of words. Soon after their dinner, they begin giving their own account of love and they each take turns. Beginning with Phaedrus, the main point he shares is that eros can be connected to virtue. According to Phaedrus, shame comes from love and virtue comes from shame, thus being in love will make whoever practicing love virtuous. Moreover, Phaedrus adds that when a person is in love they tend to care about…

with the Python, boastful Apollo, does not know what was to come from his bragging. Coincidentally, because of Apollo’s boasting to Eros, who was better known as Cupid, shot Apollo with a gold-tipped arrow of lust. Daphne, a beautiful nymph, who was also shot with an arrow that took the opposite effect, which caused Daphne to have an intense aversion to love. Eros then watched as Apollo and Daphne took effect from the arrows. Furthermore, Apollo’s intense love for Daphne caused him to…

1883, Sir Francis Galton, a respected British scholar and cousin of Charles Darwin, first used the term eugenics, meaning “well-born.” Galton believed that the human race could help direct its future by selectively breeding individuals who have “desired” traits. This idea was based on Galton’s study of upper class Britain. Following these studies, Galton concluded that an elite position in society was due to a good genetic makeup. While Galton’s plans to improve the human race through…

This concept suggests that if, or when, an event of significant conflict or trauma occurs during one or more stage of eros, a person may become fixated on that aspect of their development. I.e., according to Freud people who experience trauma during the first year of their life will develop oral fixations like smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol or using drugs. Importantly…

Alcibiades’ speech in Plato’s Symposium is a digression from the previous speakers’ because he illustrates a personal instance in which eros (love) is and is not felt, whereas the previous speakers defined it. Additionally, he shows eros as not always beneficial. His unrequited love for Socrates proves that it is not always a mutual emotion and can have a detrimental impact, unlike the other speeches which portray love as a beneficial force for both lovers and society. However, it would be…

situation because the sense of dread on her face reflects her worry, but she still chooses not to act. The balance Thanatos and Eros explains Sonia’s behavior at the party. When confronted she is not angry or aggressive, but primarily focused with the survival of her family, meaning that the Thanatos within her is being subdued by the Eros. Sonia’s imbalance between Eros and Thanatos causes her to take a defending position because she cannot bare to accuse someone, even Luzhin, for moral…

However, the difference between the two theories is the source of the aggressive forces; for Freud, aggression was an instinctual drive that all humans are born with (Thanatos) and must constantly be balanced with the drive for pleasure and life (Eros) (Karr, 1971). For Dollard and the rest of the research team at Yale, aggression was always a direct result of a person’s frustration, not caused by internal conflict but by outside stressors (Jost & Mentovich,…

cause of marriage, regardless of whether there is love between people who are bound together or not. In Greek mythology, however, marriage is almost always based on love and Eros, son of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, is the god of love. Except in Hesiod’s account, one of the most ancient of all Greek sources, Eros is usually portrayed as a winged and blindfolded child, carrying with him a quiver of arrows and his golden bow. This “mischievous, naughty” god shoots a golden arrow into…

famous being Eros, the god of love. Eros and Aphrodite were in charge of making people fall in love with each other. Aphrodite was known as the most beautiful of all of the goddesses. She is sometimes depicted with ivory-like skin and long, blonde hair. Aphrodite is usually associated with apples, scallop shells, and swans. She is also identified with myrtle trees, roses, and mirrors. Aphrodite is known to ride on a flying chariot pulled by sparrows, swans, or doves. Her son, Eros, the god of…