On 16/1/05 7:56 PM, "Anny Ballardini" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I would take away that European, in Italian Eros is well different from
> Love, as in Spanish, or French or German and finally English, if you talk of
> Greek, that can be all right since I never learnt a word in Greek;
Hi Anny, I meant that Eros, the boy god, is a standard trope of European
painting; not that the word is the same in all European languages, which it
clearly isn't, except in Greek.
Best
A
Alison Croggon
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