1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
EROS, a minor planet discovered by Witt at Berlin on the i |t h of August 1898, and, so far as yet known, unique in that its perihelion lies far within the orbit of Mars. EROS, in Greek mythology, the god of love. He is not mentioned in Homer; in Hesiod (Theog. 120) he is one of the oldest and the most beautiful of the gods, whose power neither gods nor men can resist. He also evolves order and harmony out of Chaos by uniting the separated elements. This cosmic Eros, who in Orphic cosmogony sprang from the world-eg…
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