Eros
Family: gods · Role: god of love · First appears: Book III 1
Life events
- Cypris assigns Eros to charm Medea with love for Jason.(Book III 1 · 📍 Olympus)
- Eros shoots Medea with an enchanted arrow, kindling consuming love for Jason.(Book III 3)
- With: Medea
- “and drawing wide apart with both hands he shot at Medea; and speechless amazement seized her soul.”
Book III 1
- parent: Cypris “Come, let us go to Cypris; let both of us accost her and urge her to bid her son (if only he will obey) speed his shaft at the daughter of Aeetes”
- employer: Cypris “Come, be ready to perform for me the task I will tell thee of, and I will give thee Zeus’ all-beauteous plaything—the one which his dear nurse Adrasteia made for him”
- with Ganymedes (Eros and Ganymedes are playing together.) “And they were playing for golden dice, as boys in one house are wont to do.”
Book III 3
- with Medea (Eros causes Medea to fall in love.) “and drawing wide apart with both hands he shot at Medea; and speechless amazement seized her soul.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.