Poros (mythology)
Poros ( Greek Πόρος "way out", Latin Porus ) is in Greek mythology the embodiment of resourcefulness, the ability to find a way out in any situation, and thus also the embodiment of wealth.
In Plato's symposium , Poros is the personification of abundance. He had been seduced by Penia , the personification of poverty, when he had drank too much nectar on Aphrodite's birthday , and he became the father of Eros . Poros was the son of the Oceanid Metis .
In the Christian allegory, Poros appears as a symbol of man.
literature
- Walter Pötscher : Poros 2). In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, Sp. 1063.
Web links
- Poros in the Theoi Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plato Symposium 203b.
- ↑ Eusebius of Caesarea Praeparatio Evangelica 12.11.