Erebus
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The god of love and sexual desire; son of either Erebus and Nyx or Aphrodite and Ares.
His Roman name was Cupid (although Cupid is the Roman name for Eros, it is also used in the United States as the tiny angel who wears a white robe and a halo above his head. He is most frequently conversed about around Valentine's Day.) Eros may refer to:
- Eros (mythology), the Greek god of love
- Eros (love), the Greek word for (especially) romantic or sexual love and the life instinct postulated by Freudian psychology, standing in opposition to Thanatos, the death instinct
- Eros (film), a 2004 film
- Eros Comix, a line of pornographic comic books published by Fantagraphics.
- Eros, a magazine launched and published by Ralph Ginzburg in 1962
- Eros and Psyche a digressionary story in Lucius Apuleius' novel, The Golden Age
- Eros Plus Massacre, a Japanese black and white film made in 1969 by Japanese New Wave director Yoshishige Yoshida.
- Tears of Eros, a 1961 non-fiction book by Georges Bataille
- Eros in Hell, a 1988 non-fiction book on Japanese cinema by Jack Hunter.
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