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Eros
Eros , in Greek mythology, was the Greek god of love. His Roman counterpart was Cupid . Some myths make him a primordial god, while in other myths, he is the son of Aphrodite....

is the Greek god of love.

Eros may also refer to:
  • Eros (concept), the Greek word for (especially) romantic or sexual love and the life instinct postulated by Freudian psychology, standing in opposition to Thanatos, the death instinct
  • 433 Eros
    433 Eros
    433 Eros is a near-Earth asteroid discovered in 1898, and the first asteroid to be orbited by a probe . It is an S-type asteroid approximately 34.4×11.2×11.2 km in size, the second-largest NEA after 1036 Ganymed, and belongs to the Amor group.Eros is a Mars-crosser asteroid, the first known...

    , an asteroid that was the principal target of the NEAR Shoemaker probe
  • Eros, Secretary of Roman Emperor Aurelian
    Aurelian
    Aurelian , was Roman Emperor from 270 to 275. During his reign, he defeated the Alamanni after a devastating war. He also defeated the Goths, Vandals, Juthungi, Sarmatians, and Carpi. Aurelian restored the Empire's eastern provinces after his conquest of the Palmyrene Empire in 273. The following...

    , whose assassination he masterminded (275 AD)
  • JDT 1650R EROS
    Mini-MAX
    The JDT Mini-MAX is a large family of single-seat, mid-wing, strut-braced, single engine aircraft, available in kit form for amateur construction. The first Mini-MAX had its first flight in 1984...

    , aircraft
  • EROS (microkernel), an operating system developed by The EROS Group, LLC., the Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Pennsylvania

Locations

  • Eros, Louisiana
    Eros, Louisiana
    Eros is a town in Jackson Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 202 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ruston Micropolitan Statistical Area.Former Northwestern State University President Arnold R. Kilpatrick was born in Eros...

    , a town in the United States
  • Eros, Arkansas
    Eros, Arkansas
    Eros is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Arkansas, United States....

  • Eros (statue), the popular (though erroneous) name for the Shaftesbury memorial, a monument in Piccadilly Circus, London
  • Eros Airport
    Eros Airport
    Eros Airport or Windhoek Eros Airport is an airport serving Windhoek, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. It is located in the Khomas Region, about south of Windhoek's central business district....

    , an airport in Windhoek, Namibia

Entertainment

  • Eros (Deftones album), an unreleased studio album by alternative metal band Deftones
  • Eros (comics), a superhero appearing in Marvel Comics, better known as Starfox
  • Eros, a character in Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space
    Plan 9 from Outer Space
    Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 science fiction film written and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. The film features Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson and Maila "Vampira" Nurmi...

    (1959)
  • Eros Comix
    Eros Comix
    Eros Comix is an adult-oriented imprint of Fantagraphics Books, established in 1990 to publish pornographic comic books. Eros Comix sells anime videos, DVDs, adult comic books, and books of erotic art and photography...

    , a line of pornographic comic books published by Fantagraphics
  • Eros (film)
    Eros (film)
    Eros is a 2004 portmanteau film consisting of three short films: Wong Kar-wai's The Hand, Steven Soderbergh's Equilibrium and Michelangelo Antonioni's The Dangerous Thread of Things.-Releases:...

    , a 2004 film
  • Eros Labs
    Eros Labs
    Eros International Media Ltd., also known as Eros Entertainment, is an Indian media and entertainment giant, involved in the production, acquisition and distribution of filmed entertainment across in movie theaters, on video and television, and in new media.Established in 1977, the company operates...

    , a Bollywood laboratary that makes DVDs and videos
  • Eros Ramazzotti
    Eros Ramazzotti
    Eros Luciano Walter Ramazzotti , known simply as Eros Ramazzotti, is an Italian singer and songwriter. Ramazzotti is enormously popular in Italy, and is well known in most non-English-speaking European countries and in the Spanish-speaking world, as he has released most of his albums in both...

     (born 1963), Italian pop star
  • Eros (Eros Ramazzotti album)
    Eros (Eros Ramazzotti album)
    Eros is the first greatest hits album by Italian pop/rock singer Eros Ramazzotti, released in 1997 on the BMG label. Of the album's 16 tracks, five are original recordings, nine re-recordings and two new tracks. Two of the re-recorded tracks are duets; "Musica è" featuring Andrea Bocelli and...

  • Eros (Dün album)
    Eros (Dün album)
    Eros is the name of the first recording made by the French progressive rock band Dün. They released this record on a French label called Soleil Atreides in 1981. The album apparently never received distribution to wider channels, and, as a result, is incredibly rare...

  • Eros, a magazine by Ralph Ginzburg
    Ralph Ginzburg
    Ralph Ginzburg was an American author, editor, publisher and photo-journalist. He was best known for publishing books and magazines on erotica and art and for his conviction in 1963 for violating federal obscenity laws....

    persecuted for obscenity in 1962,
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