Eros (disambiguation)

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Eros is the Greek god of love.

Eros may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment[edit]

Comics and magazines[edit]

  • Eros (comics), a superhero appearing in Marvel Comics, better known as Starfox
  • Eros, a magazine by Ralph Ginzburg prosecuted for obscenity in 1962
  • Eros Comix, a line of pornographic comic books published by Fantagraphics

Film and television[edit]

Music[edit]

Organisations[edit]

  • Eros Films, a British film distribution company in existence from 1947–1961
  • Eros International, an Indian motion picture production and distribution company

Places[edit]

People[edit]

  • Eros, Secretary of Roman Emperor Aurelian, whose assassination he masterminded (275 AD)
  • Eros Capecchi (born 1986), Italian cyclist
  • Eros Pisano (born 1987), Italian footballer
  • Eros Ramazzotti (born 1963), Italian singer-songwriter
  • Reinhard Erös (born 1948), medical doctor, leader of the Kinderhilfe Afghanistan German NGO
  • Eros Volúsia (1914–2004), Brazilian dancer, actress

Other uses[edit]

  • Eros (concept), the Greco-Christian term for (especially) romantic or sexual love and the life instinct postulated by Freudian psychology
  • 433 Eros, a near earth asteroid that was the principal target of the NEAR Shoemaker probe and the first soft landing on an asteroid by a spacecraft
  • Eros (beetle), a genus of beetles

See also[edit]