The early Greek poet Hesiod has him as a primal god, son of CHAOS, who united heaven and earth; elsewhere he is one of the children of primordial and elemental deities AETHER and HEMERA. Later tradition has him as the son of APHRODITE by ZEUS, ARES or HERMES. His brother is ANTEROS, god of mutual love. He is a god of passion and fertility. His associates are POTHOS and HIMEROS, longing and desire respectively. Through the Alexandrian and Hellenistic periods, Eros slowly degenerates into an ephemerally beautiful winged youth, then a mischievous child. Some writers imagined there to be a number of EROTES, whose Roman equivalents were the AMORES
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