Antéros

In the Greek Mythology, Antéros (in Greek old Αντέρως / Antérōs , of ἀντι- / anti , “in return” and ἔρως / érōs , “love”), wire of Ares and Aphrodite, is the brother of Eros.

Symbolism

It incarnates “against Amour” (significance of its name), i.e. the love not shared, but also punishes those which make fun of the love. Its nature is well illustrated by the Athenian legend of Timagoras and Mélès, reported by Pausanias (I, 30): regarded as spirit avenger of Timagoras (Mélès precipitant in death for the scorn which it had had of him), Antéros had a furnace bridge in the quoted.

The term of “antéros” is also found in the Phèdre of Plato, when Socrate makes its second speech on the love where, speaking about the incipient feeling that a young boy (eromene) tests for a éraste, it describes:

“But, just like that which of some other took an ophthalmia is out of state to pretext a cause with its evil, him, it does not suspect only in that which likes it, it is itself that it sees, as in a mirror: in its presence, the suspension of its sufferings merges with the suspension of the sufferings of the other; in its absence, the regret that it tests and that which it inspires still confuse: in possession of a against-love which is a considered image of love. ”
(255d, transl. Leon Robin)

Artistic evocations

Antéros is the subject of the Shaftesbury Memorial with Piccadilly Circus (London), where he points out the Philanthropie count de Shaftesbury. This fountain is indeed overhung of a named statue The Angel off Christian Charity (“the Angel of Christian charity”) or more commonly Eros . But its sculptor, Alfred Gilbert agreed to represent the subject of Antéros to depict a love “reflective and mature (...), ace opposed to Eros gold Cupid, the frivolous tyrant. ” (translation: “considered and ripe love, contrary to Eros or Cupid, the frivolous tyrant. ”).

In literature, one finds it at Nerval whose fourth sonnet of the Chimères is entitled Antéros . He points out the love not shared of the poet and Jenny Colon.

Sources

  • (III, 21).

  • (XLVII, 332).
  • (IV, 1).
  • (I, 30; VI, 23).
  • (255d).

See too

Related articles

  • Timagoras and Mélès

  • Eros

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