| Title: | Anteros, or requited love |
| Original Title: | Anteros, ou le Contre-amour |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 495 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot (biography) |
| Translator: | Liz Medendorp [University of Michigan] |
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Mythology
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| Citation (MLA): | Diderot, Denis. "Anteros, or requited love." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Liz Medendorp. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.657>. Trans. of "Anteros, ou le Contre-amour," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Diderot, Denis. "Anteros, or requited love." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Liz Medendorp. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.657 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Anteros, ou le Contre-amour," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:495 (Paris, 1751). |
Anteros, or Requited Love. The son of Venus and Mars. It is said that Venus complained to Themis that Amor always stayed a child. Themis answered her, “And he will remain as such, so long as you have no other son.” At this answer, the gallant goddess heeded the god of war; Requited Love was born, and the first son of Venus grew up. They each had wings, a quiver, and arrows. They have been grouped together several times: they are seen in an ancient bas-relief, fighting over a palm branch. Pausanias speaks of a statue of Anteros in which this god clasps two roosters to his chest, trying to make them peck his head. He enjoyed divine honors; the Athenians built altars to him. Cupid was the god of love; Anteros , the god of its return.