Erotes (mythology)#Himeros

Himeros (Greek Ἵμερος, desire ) is in the Greek mythology the personification of loving desire.

As desire for love Himeros is first mentioned in Homer. In Hesiod he appears personified together with Eros as a companion to the new-born Aphrodite, which is accompanied by them to Olympus and lives with the Graces in the vicinity of the Muses. In Lucian of Samosata, he is the son of Aphrodite, the late ancient rhetorician Himerius and the late antique poets Quintus of Smyrna and Nonnus of Panopolis call him next Eileithyia and the Erinyes as those present at the death of Semele.

Pausanias tells of a Himerosstatue the sculptor Scopas, which was set up with a statue of Eros and Pothos the addition of Aphrodite practice of Aphrodite at Megara.