Historica of EROS

In the classical world, the phenomenon of passionate love was generally understood as a kind of madness or, as the Greeks put it, theia mania ("madness from the gods").^[1] This love passion was described through an elaborate metaphoric and mythological psychological schema involving "love's arrows" or "love darts", the source of which was often given as the mythological Eros or Cupid,^[2], sometimes by other mythological deities (such as Rumor^[3]).