These Hellenistic era earrings depict Eros Decscending from a Cloud maybe unless its a cape behind him or something else. Possibly something biological a certain opening?
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Showing posts with label eros. Show all posts
Sunday, 5 July 2020
Tuesday, 13 February 2018
Eros and Agape 2018
February the Fourteenth day is a day in which we hopefully combine eros and agape to find some true love?
Hopefully the boy god willn't treat you too badly today!
Recommended reading The Tale of Eros and Psyche form Apuleius' golden ass.
Although written in Latin it incorporates elements from older folktales from Greece and elsewhere.
Penguin Classics has a translation.
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
To Greece to Italy - Classical Influences on Later Art
#greeksculpture #lysippus #manneristpainting #parmigianino
Below is an example of how Greek Classical culture influenced the Renaissance and how one medium sculpture can effect another painting.
Compare these two images
Below is an example of how Greek Classical culture influenced the Renaissance and how one medium sculpture can effect another painting.
Compare these two images
The first is one of several Roman copies of a sculpture by the late Classical Sculptor #Lysippus.
This is a Mannerist 16th century painting by Parmigianino
Anyone know if he had access to the Villa D'Este copy before it was moved to the Vatican Museum?
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
EROS PRIMORDIAL
#eros #myth #aristophanes #hesiod
EROS was originally depicted as a young man or a teenager.
The depictions of Eros as a child or baby start appearing in the Hellenistic era.
The myth about his origins seems to have changed sometime in the Classical or Hellenistic era.
People writing about him in Greek and Latin started describing him as the Child of Aphrodite and Ares but in older texts he is a PRIMORDIAL being predating the Olympians.
Hesiod Lines 116 Theogony describes Chaos as being the first being and then Earth line 120-22 Tartaros and EROS "most beautiful among the immortal gods"
One fragment of Parmenides writings also refers to EROS as the first born
Aristophanes uses a variant of this older myth to support the idea the Birds are the oldest of beings .
Lines 696 >> Eros is the first being to be born from an egg with golden wings and Line 703 hence the Birds are the children of love since they fly ...
Aristophanes version came form the Orphic mysteries but all these writers Hesiod, Parmenides and Aristophanes and the Orphics agree EROS is something primordial and ever young.
EROS was originally depicted as a young man or a teenager.
The depictions of Eros as a child or baby start appearing in the Hellenistic era.
The myth about his origins seems to have changed sometime in the Classical or Hellenistic era.
People writing about him in Greek and Latin started describing him as the Child of Aphrodite and Ares but in older texts he is a PRIMORDIAL being predating the Olympians.
Hesiod Lines 116 Theogony describes Chaos as being the first being and then Earth line 120-22 Tartaros and EROS "most beautiful among the immortal gods"
One fragment of Parmenides writings also refers to EROS as the first born
Aristophanes uses a variant of this older myth to support the idea the Birds are the oldest of beings .
Lines 696 >> Eros is the first being to be born from an egg with golden wings and Line 703 hence the Birds are the children of love since they fly ...
Aristophanes version came form the Orphic mysteries but all these writers Hesiod, Parmenides and Aristophanes and the Orphics agree EROS is something primordial and ever young.
Saturday, 11 February 2017
EROS and AGAPE
With Valentine's day this Teusday I'm doing a hybrid post today comparing Classical and NT Greek usage.
#classicalgreek #eros #newtestamentgreek #agape #philia
One of the most striking differences between Classical Greek and New Testament Greek is the preference for AGAPE over EROS and PHILIA.
In Classical Greek Prose and Poetry, Drama and Comedy, Eros and Philia are the verbs most frequently loved to describe relationships of desire, love and friendship, and familial affection is rarely discussed.
However in the NEW Testament GOD IS LOVE - AGAPE
Now one idea I have seen is that AGAPE is actually a loan word based on the AfroAsiatic HBB stem and given how the Greeks altered other loan words from Egyptian and Phoenician that seems possible but I think another reason was cultural. The NT writers wanted to distance themselves at first from Greek philosophers' ideas about love, Platonic or other.
Eros even in its widest meanings refers to passionate love usually with sexual or romantic element.
Philia is friendship
Storge Affection.
HBB / Agape covers all those things and more though we should bear in mind Aramaic also used other words.
A possible issue is people using Greek as a second language. Look at the differences between the declensions of EROS and Agape and their connected Verbs. People learn the simplest forms first.
With Latin usage starting to spread into the Eastern empire Philia could have caused confusion as the Romans had filius and filius to describe children and since neither Greek or Aramaic used a F sound in the initial position at that time period that I know of ...
Agapaa agape agapoo easy to pronounce and write and read no need to remmeber eroos has a T in other cases than nominative and the initial Consonant cluster in STORGEE plus an R next to a G .
AGAPE WINS! with so many advantages over other words, philosophical, semantic, theological, cultural, sociolinguistic, and artistic. The return of Eros to Western art though is a subject best discussed over on my Glyphika blog.
#classicalgreek #eros #newtestamentgreek #agape #philia
One of the most striking differences between Classical Greek and New Testament Greek is the preference for AGAPE over EROS and PHILIA.
In Classical Greek Prose and Poetry, Drama and Comedy, Eros and Philia are the verbs most frequently loved to describe relationships of desire, love and friendship, and familial affection is rarely discussed.
However in the NEW Testament GOD IS LOVE - AGAPE
Now one idea I have seen is that AGAPE is actually a loan word based on the AfroAsiatic HBB stem and given how the Greeks altered other loan words from Egyptian and Phoenician that seems possible but I think another reason was cultural. The NT writers wanted to distance themselves at first from Greek philosophers' ideas about love, Platonic or other.
Eros even in its widest meanings refers to passionate love usually with sexual or romantic element.
Philia is friendship
Storge Affection.
HBB / Agape covers all those things and more though we should bear in mind Aramaic also used other words.
A possible issue is people using Greek as a second language. Look at the differences between the declensions of EROS and Agape and their connected Verbs. People learn the simplest forms first.
With Latin usage starting to spread into the Eastern empire Philia could have caused confusion as the Romans had filius and filius to describe children and since neither Greek or Aramaic used a F sound in the initial position at that time period that I know of ...
Agapaa agape agapoo easy to pronounce and write and read no need to remmeber eroos has a T in other cases than nominative and the initial Consonant cluster in STORGEE plus an R next to a G .
AGAPE WINS! with so many advantages over other words, philosophical, semantic, theological, cultural, sociolinguistic, and artistic. The return of Eros to Western art though is a subject best discussed over on my Glyphika blog.
Monday, 20 June 2016
Love Wins WHEN you ...
I should be posting about usages of mercy in matthew 18 but I feel I have to write something about the consequences of #Orlando and other recent events and yes about #homophobia and #islamophobia.
People I'm seeing Conservatives and Bigots blaming Liberals and Progressives for certain events due to their calls for toleration and I'm seeing some Liberals going on and on and on about homophobia and meanwhile the extremists and terrorists on both sides profit from the bickering.
Please instead of arguing about causes and labels and start working together to try to find a way to detect and deter "Lone gun man" type shooters!
Posts about "evil Muslims" or gun control or with rainbows or even LOVE WINS all over them or replacing your usual avatar don't solve.
But wait you say I just just posted a LOVE WINS image!
Think about what 4 words I included in the image ?
AGAPE Compassion Philia Friendship Eros Passion Storge Affection
All these require action even if its just smiling reassuring or saying hello or being polite to a Muslim or LGBT neighbour.
Working on these 4 forms of Love whether you give them Greek Latin or English names is how LOVE WINS. Give those words a workout!
Do something!
Saturday, 13 February 2016
A Valentines Day Message Think About AGAPE
NO Bible Study today just this reminder about the difference between Eros and Agape #stvalentinesday #agape #eros #love
Did they want a word that expressed love in general that was not more affection for family and friends only or a philosophical passionate friendship?
I think Agape / Agapoo win out over other Greek words because it includes love compassion friendship and charity.
You're welcome to download and share this !
Think about why the New Testament prefers agapoo over phileoo or eraoo or storgeoo as a verb. Is it because of the similar HVA HBB Aramaic Semitic stem?Did they want a word that expressed love in general that was not more affection for family and friends only or a philosophical passionate friendship?
I think Agape / Agapoo win out over other Greek words because it includes love compassion friendship and charity.
Saturday, 27 June 2015
LOVE WINS
With #lovewins being a trending social media topic let us remember there is more than one kind of love,
Charity or compassion, whichever translation of Agape you prefer, Philia, friendship, Storge, affection, and Eros, passion are all forms of love.
Whichever kind of relationship you're in or partnership let desire become love.
Monday, 3 March 2014
Holy Wisdom and Winged Gods
Yes near eastern art was one source but I wonder if another was early Christian artists seeing images in Greek and Roman art of winged deities like Iris or Eros?
Here's Eros in flight
and here's Thanatos Death with wings
Finally Iris messenger of the gods
Now Holy Wisdom
Remember the first missionaries to pagan KIEV were GREEK Orthodox from Byzantium.
Friday, 14 February 2014
Winged EROS
The tradition of depicting Eros as a winged youth is ancient.
its not entirely clear to someone unfamiliar with the action but he is playing with a bobbin of thread perhaps that used by the Fates?
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