This is part of a calander I am putting together. I will probally post a few others from the calander so keep an eye out. Also it will be for sale. The subject is well duh... Aphrodite and the Erotes. They are the Greek Gods of love, hence their placement on the Feburary page (month of love...).

APHRODITE (Center) is the godess of love and beauty. She is often shown with or riding geese or swans and depicted holding doves. Also she was born from the cockle shell. Roses are one of her flowers.

THE EROTES were the ever-youthful winged gods of love. The most famous of these were the frequently depicted triad of gods Eros, Himeros and Pothos. The Erotes were depicted as winged boys usually in the company of Aphrodite or her attendant goddesses. Other Erotes are Anteros (God of mutual love), Hedylogos (God of sweet talk and flattery), Hermaphroditos (union of both sex so never to be apart), and Hymenaios (God of the wedding ceremony).

EROS (Top Right) is the son of Aphrodite and is the leader of the Erotes. He is the god of love in its traditional sence. He is responcible for shooting people with his bow and making them fall in love. He is a young teenage boy and very mischeveous. He is often holding a rabbit (but I thought that would look random... so he gets a dove).
HIMEROS (Top Left) is Aphrodites companion and right hand man from the moment of her birth. He is the god of desire (especially sexual). He is blind.
ANTEROS (Bottom Right), (My personal hero!!!) is the god of mutual love. He also seeks retribution for unrequitted love. SO yea he needs to meet all my ex-s and kill them... HAHA! Just kidding (Well I am, he's not).
And finally POTHOS (Bottom Left) the good of unatainable desires and passionate longings. Becuase his love for things is so far fetched and usually unatainable he is associated with paradice and the after life. It's like having a crush on Brad Pitt or something. Or wanting to be with someone who has passed away.

Drawn by hand and then Digitally Colored on Photoshop.