Sources
Notes follow Turabian practice: first citation full, later citations shortened. Ancient evidence remains ancient evidence. Open questions remain open.
Bibliography
- Apuleius. Metamorphoses 4.28–6.24. 2nd century CE.
- Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics VIII–IX. Trans. W. D. Ross. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
- Empedocles. Fragment B17 DK.
- Herman, Gabriel. Ritualised Friendship and the Greek City. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- Lee, John Alan. Colours of Love. Toronto: New Press, 1973.
- Lewis, C. S. The Four Loves. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1960.
- Liddell, Henry George, and Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. 9th ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940.
- Nygren, Anders. Agape and Eros. Trans. Philip S. Watson. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1953.
- Berridge, Kent C., and Terry E. Robinson. Work on incentive salience (wanting and liking).
- Evelyn-White, Hugh G., trans. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica. London: William Heinemann, 1914.
- Hesiod. Theogony. In Evelyn-White, 1914.
- Jones, W. H. S., trans. Pausanias: Description of Greece. London: William Heinemann, 1918.
- Jowett, Benjamin, trans. The Dialogues of Plato. 3rd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892.
- Musée du Louvre. Attic red-figure bobbin, CA 1798.
- NASA / JPL / JHUAPL. NEAR Shoemaker mosaics of 433 Eros. Public domain.
- Parmenides. Fragment B13 DK.
- Pausanias. Description of Greece. Jones, 1918.
- Plato. Phaedrus. Jowett, 1892.
- Plato. Symposium.
- Sappho. Fragments 31, 47, 130 Voigt. Greek via standard editions.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bronze statue of Eros sleeping, 43.11.4. CC0.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Terracotta statuette of Eros flying, 28.55. CC0.
- U.S. Geological Survey / International Astronomical Union Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. Eros features 4857 (Psyche), 2508 (Himeros), 4152 (Narcissus), 2513 (Hinks Dorsum). Approved 2003.
- Wharton, Henry Thornton. Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings and a Literal Translation. London: David Stott, 1885.
Gematria
ἔρως sums to 1105 by Milesian letter-numerals. EROS is the ordinary English transliteration of ἔρως. The spelling was already the title. The arithmetic arrived later. Noticed September 2026. Calculated as arithmetic. Held as a rhyme.