Eros

Eros is the Greek god of sensual love and desire. He is a son of Ares and Aphrodite and is the brother of Adrestia, Anteros, Phobos, Deimos and Harmonia. In the Roman mythology, he is known as Cupid or Amor.Assassin's Creed II – Glyph 19: "The Fourth Day" Eros is one of the Erotes, a group of winged gods, which includes also his brother Anteros. The Roman equivalent of this group is called the Cupids.
==Mythology==
Eros was ordered by his mother, Aphrodite, whom after becoming jealous of a human woman, Psyche and her beauty that rivaled the goddess, told Eros to make her fall in love with an ugly and unworthy man. Eros instead, fell in love with the woman himself after accidentally pricking himself with his own arrow after shooting her. After various trials and tribulation on both lover's parts, they overcome them and are eventually married.
==Legacy and influence==
During the Peloponnesian War, the Spartan misthios Kassandra visited the altar dedicated to Eros and Anteros. She also recovered a bow in the Andania Mine which was dedicated to Eros.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
When the was created, the story of Eros and Aphrodite fleeing the monster Typhon by becoming fishes and leaping into the sea was used as the basis for the sign of .Assassin's Creed: Pirates
By the 2nd century CE, Eros and Psyche's love story was written about by Apuleius in his book, The Golden Ass. A book that the Assassin Mentor Ezio Auditore da Firenze would later purchase a copy of in the early 16th century.Assassin's Creed: Revelations
The oil painting, by Titian was completed in 1514, and was later displayed at Monteriggioni after being purchased by a young Ezio Auditore.Assassin's Creed II In 1526 or 1528, the Italian painter and sculptor painted a scene of the two lovers, and entitled it simply as Cupid and Psyche.Assassin's Creed II – Glyph 14: "Bloodlines" Circa 1600, Mars Venus en Amor was painted by the Dutch painter . In 1808, another painting by the same name as Romano's was completed by the British-American painter .Assassin's Creed II – Glyph 1: "In the Beginning"
In 2012 Clay Kaczmarek included the story of Psyche and Cupid in a set of puzzles he'd hidden within the Animus for his successor to find. In Clay's puzzle it was suggested that their story was one of those in which "the seeds were planted as two worlds became one" and included the painting by Benjamin West. In a former puzzle, Cupid was excluded from a list of individuals known to have possessed an Apple of Eden, represented by the Giulio Romano's painting of the lovers. Another puzzle that excluded Cupid was one that showed depicitions of the sun. Later that year a picture of Eros with the Greek pantheon was included in the Abstergo Files dossiers given to participants of the Animi Training Program. The specific file, "File.0.20\FC_Entities" labeled Eros and the other Greek gods as "Mankind's progenitors".Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files: "File.0.20\FC_Entities
==Gallery==
Scared and Profane love - By Titan.png|Cupid beside Venus in by Titian
ACII-BenjaminWest-CupidandPsyche.jpg| by 
AC2 - Cupid and Pysche by Giulio Romano.jpg|Cupid and Pysche by 
AC2 - Mars, Venus, and Amor.jpg|Mars Venus en Amor by 
Olympians.jpg|Eros (bottom) amongst the Greek pantheon
ACP Pisces.png|Eros and Aphrodite engraved on stone as the sign Pisces
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed II 
*Assassin's Creed: Revelations 
*Assassin's Creed: Pirates 
*Assassin's Creed: Odyssey 
*Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR 
==References==
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Category:Greek mythology
Category:Roman mythology
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