Eros

Epithets:
Protogonos (First-Born)
Symbols:
arrows, winged snadles
Animal(s):
dove
Sacrifices:
copper, rose, myrtle, clover, benzoin, sandalwood,
apple, cinnamon
Primary Cult Center(s):
Thespiae, Parion, Athens
Festivals:
symposia, sacrifices at the gymnasia
For more information:
Apollonios Rhodius Argonautica 3.119-166,
3.275-298
Hesiod's Theogony 116-122
Hyginus' Poetica Astronomica 2.30, 2.42
Ovid's Metamorphoses 1.452-473, 5.362-384
Pausanias' Guide to Greece 5.11.8, 9.27.1-4, 9.31.3
Plato's Symposia
Vergil's Aenead 667-722