erotes
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English
Alternative forms
- Erotes (particularly the Greek gods)
Noun
erotes
- plural of eros
- (Greek mythology, often capitalised) Collectively, a group of winged gods attendant to Aphrodite, of whom Eros is the best known.
- 2007, Jaś Elsner, Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text, Princeton University Press, unnumbered page:
- There is also a parallel if less common iconography of the standing Narcissus (both alone with erotes—for example, from IX.3.5/24 […] —and with Echo and erotes—for example, Naples Museum […] .
- 2018, B. C. Ewald, “Attic Sarcophagi”, in Lucy Gaynor Audley-Miller, Beate Dignas, editors, Wandering Myths, De Gruyter, page 239:
- The relative scarcity of children's sarcophagi (i.e. of child-sized sarcophagi) and specifically child-related iconographies. The Attic sarcophagi with Erotes are an exception to this.