Eros-ivo. A post-post-Valentine When Aphrodite was born , the gods held a banquet, and among others was Poros (Dodge), son of Metis (Insight).
After they held the banquet was Penia (Poverty) to beg, because there was a big party, and was sitting near the door. What happened was Poros , drunk with nectar, since the wine was still there, entered the garden of Zeus, burdened as it was, fell asleep. Penia , then, as it was the lack of everything that has Poros , devising to have a child by Poros , giaque with him and conceived Eros .
Therefore, Eros became follower and minister of Aphrodite , because it was generated during the Christmas holidays with her, at the same time is by nature a lover of beauty, because Aphrodite is also beautiful. (1)
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As Eros is the son of Penia and Poros , his was a destiny of this type.
First is always poor, and is anything but beautiful and delicate, as they see the most. Instead, it is hard and wiry, barefoot and homeless, is still lying on the floor without blankets, and sleeping outdoors in front of doors or in the street, and, because of the nature of the mother, is always accompanied by poverty.
For what it receives from the father, however, the traitor he is beautiful and good, is brave, bold, impetuous, great hunter, always aim to plot intrigues, keen wisdom, resourceful, researcher of wisdom for life, extraordinary magician, production of filters, sophist. And by its nature is neither mortal nor immortal, but, on the same day, sometimes blooming and alive, when he succeeded in his tricks, sometimes, however, died, but then comes back to life, due to the nature of the father. And what you always escapes prosecution's hand, so that Eros is never either resource-poor nor rich. (1)
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One who has recently started and contemplated the fact that much of the time, when he sees face of a divine form that mimics well the beauty, or some shaped body, at first feels the chills, and some of the fears then penetrates him [...]. when they saw him, he grasps it as a reaction that comes from the thrill, and an unusual warmth and sweat. In fact, getting the scent through the eyes of beauty, it warms the place where the nature of the soul is nourished. And once riscaldatasi, dissolve the parties that surround the seeds, which, being closed for some time drying up, left no sprout wings. all'affluire Following nourishment, the condition of the wing swells and begins to grow from the root to form the whole of the soul. In fact, time, the soul was all winged. (2)
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(female subjects: Leda . was loved by Zeus who transformed for her into a swan)
(1) Speech of Socrates in Plato's Symposium
(2) Plato's Phaedrus
From "Ancient Wisdom , treatment for the ills of humanity today " by Giovanni Reale
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