Anteros by Alfred Gilbert, 1885; from the Shaftesbury Memorial in Piccadilly Circus.

In Greek mythology, Anteros (Greek: Αντέρως, Anterôs) was the god of requited love, literally "love returned," and also the punisher of those who scorn love and the advances of others, or the avenger of unrequited love. Pope Anterus, the 19th Pope (Reign: November 21, 235 - January 3, 236), succeeded Pope Pontian, who had been deported from Rome along with the antipope Hippolytus to Sardinia. ... Download high resolution version (500x741, 23 KB) Statue of The Angel of Christian Charity at Piccadilly Circus in London. ... Download high resolution version (500x741, 23 KB) Statue of The Angel of Christian Charity at Piccadilly Circus in London. ... Sir Alfred Gilbert (August 12, 1854 – November 4, 1934) was an English sculptor and goldsmith who enthusiastically experimented with metallurgical innovations. ... The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ...

Anteros was the son of Ares and Aphrodite in Greek mythology, given to his brother Eros, who was lonely, as a playmate, the rationale being that love must be answered if it is to prosper.^[1] Physically, he is depicted as similar to Eros in every way, but with long hair and butterfly wings. He has been described also as armed with either a golden club or arrows of lead.^[2] This article is about the ancient Greek god; for other uses, see Ares (disambiguation). ... The Birth of Venus, (detail) by Sandro Botticelli, 1485 For other uses, see Aphrodite (disambiguation). ... The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ... In Greek mythology, Eros was the god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. ...

Anteros, with Eros, was one of a host of winged love gods called Erotes, the ever-youthful winged gods of love, usually depicted as winged boys in the company of Aphrodite or her attendant goddesses. The term was also used for the love which arises in the beloved boy in a pederastic relationship. Pederasty or paederasty (literally boy-love, see Etymology below) refers to an intimate or erotic relationship between an adolescent boy and an adult male outside his immediate family. ...

An altar to this god was put up by the metics in Athens in commemoration of the spurned love of the metic Timagoras who was rejected by the young Athenian Meles. Upon hearing Timagoras' declaration of love for him, the young man mockingly ordered him to throw himself down from the top of a tall rock. Seeing Timagoras dead, the youth repented and threw himself down from the same rock.^[3] In Ancient Greece, the term metic meant simply a foreigner, a non-Greek, living in one of the Greek city-states. ... This article is about the capital of Greece. ... Meles is the genus of the European Badgers. ...

Describing the nature of the emotion, Plato asserts that it is the result of the great love that a lover has for a boy. The lover, inspired by the beauty of the boy, is filled with divine love and it overflows from him to the boy, "filling the soul of the loved one with love in return." As a result, the boy falls in love with his lover, though he neither thinks nor speaks of it as love, but as friendship. His experience of pain when the two are apart, and relief when they are together, the mirror image of the lover's feelings, is anteros, or "counter-love."^[4] For other uses, see Plato (disambiguation). ... Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more humans. ...

Anteros is the subject of the Shaftesbury Memorial in Piccadilly Circus, London, where he symbolises the selfless philanthropic love of the Earl of Shaftesbury for the poor. The memorial is sometimes given the name The Angel of Christian Charity and is popularly called Eros, both of which are incorrect. Piccadilly Circus memorial fountain The Angel of Christian Charity, popularly referred to as Eros, one of the first statues to be cast in aluminium. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Earl of Shaftesbury by Carlo Pellegrini, 1869 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801 – 1885), styled Lord Ashley from 1811 to 1851, was an English politician and philanthropist, one of the best-known of the Victorian era. ...

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