Anteros
Sign in to saveIn Greek mythology, Anteros (; ) is the god of requited love (literally "love returned" or "counter-love") and also the punisher of those who scorn love and the advances of others, or the avenger of unrequited love.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Greek
- Deity.name
- Anteros
- Deity.image
- File:Eros-piccadilly-circus.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Anteros by Alfred Gilbert, 1893; from the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus.
- Deity.god_of
- God of requited love, avenger of unrequited love
- Deity.symbol
- golden club with arrows of lead
- Deity.parents
- Ares and Aphrodite
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- Anteros
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- worshipped by
- Ancient Greek religion
- domain of saint or deity
- love
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In Greek mythology, Anteros (; ) is the god of requited love (literally "love returned" or "counter-love") and also the punisher of those who scorn love and the advances of others, or the avenger of unrequited love.
==Myth== thumb|Eros and Anteros on a second-century AD marble relief from Knossos, Crete.
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