Pothos

The personification of love or desire, the companion of Eros.

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Iconography

Pothos was represented along with Eros and Himeros in the temple of Aphrodite at Megara, by the hand of Scopas.

References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 43.6.
  • Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia xxxvi, 4, 7.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.