Anteros

In Greek mythology, Anteros (Greek Ἀντέρως " Unrequited Love "), the god of requited love, the thwarted love revenge. His brother is Eros, the god of generating love. After being sounded by the rhetorician Themistius legend Aphrodite was worried that her son Eros would not grow. On the saying go, Eros could grow only when he and thus have brother counterpart, she gave birth to Anteros.

The cult of Eros and Anteros appears to come as a mythological representation of the ratio of Erastes and eromenos from the environment of the palaestra. In the gymnasium of Elis an altar of the two have been located according to Pausanias and in a local palaestra was a relief both to see how they wrestle around a palm of victory and tried to snatch the palm Eros Anteros.

When revenge is God he is nicknamed Alastor. The Anteros Alastor was an altar near the Acropolis of Athens. Pausanias reported to the legend that an Athenian citizen named Meles towards him raised by the metics Timagoras love not only rejected, but Timagoras calling, but to jump from the Acropolis, which Timagoras then did. As Meles saw the consequences of his cold, he was so eaten away by remorse that he also jumped off the Acropolis. To commemorate this sad story the metics Athens then consecrated an altar.

Eunapius of Sardis tells an anecdote from the life of Iamblichus of Chalcis. When he was staying with some students in the baths of Gadara in Syria, he was beset once again by his students to perform a miracle. There are two hot springs, which were called by the locals Eros and Anteros were. Iamblichus spoke an incantation and touched the water of a source by hand, which then a beautiful boy emerged with golden hair, then he did the same with the other source from which an equally beautiful boy rose with dark hair. The boys crowded to Iamblichus, as if he were her father. He finally they disappear again. This proof of his miraculous power of his followers were convinced and not beset him in the future. Traditionally, golden hair was Eros attributed to Iamblichus thus has summoned the phenomena of Eros and Anteros.

After Cicero Anteros is the son of Mars and the " third " Venus, daughter of Jupiter and Diona.