In four paragraphs respond to the following question; what did the greeks think true love should be? Backup your answer with evidence from 'Perseus and the Quest for Medusa's Head' and 'Atlanta the Fleet Footed Huntress'.

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In four paragraphs respond to the following question; what did the greeks think true love should be? Backup your answer with evidence from 'Perseus and the Quest for Medusa's Head' and 'Atlanta the Fleet Footed Huntress'.

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Lauren Callahan · Answer 1

For Greeks there are four types of love: 1. Eros: also known as Cupid, he is the God of love. This one refers to the erotic love, the desire, with a lot of passion and energy sometimes known as the firsts stages of falling in love with someone. This kind of love could be relationated with "Perseus and the Quest for Medusa's Head", because it is so passionate that resulted in destructive actions, as Poseidon rapes Medusa, in a destructive desire for her, an intense kind of love.

2. Agape: This kind of love refers to an unconditional, pure, reflexive love, that comes from the deepest part of the soul. As a person say "I love you". It could be from a parent for a child, a kind of religious love.

3. Philia: This one is considered the most general kind of love, it is a social meaning as well, because it is as a mind love, a familiar one. As the one a persone gives to their friends or the society around him. When somebody wants the best for the other ones as the myth of Atlanta the Fleet Footed Huntress".

And the last one is 4. Storge, which is not as known as the other ones but, this one is also the love a person feels for the family, the friends and the persons he is relationated with. The difference with this one is that here the person needs to know better the other ones, to love what they are and mean.