erotes

• Erotes (particularly the Greek gods)

erotes

1. plural of eros
2. (Greek mythology, often capitalised) Collectively, a group of winged gods attendant to Aphrodite, of whom Eros is the best known.

   Hyponyms: Anteros, Eros, Hedylogos, Hermaphroditus, Himeros, Hymenaios, Pothos

   • 1999, Yulia Ustinova, The Supreme Gods of the Bosporan Kingdom, BRILL, page 49,

     Regretfully, the shaft of the stele is lost, and only the central part of its gable is preserved, featuring a bust of the goddess, flanked by two Erotes.

   • 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, 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.

• Eostre, Rosete, STEREO, e-store, stereo, stereo-