Hedone’s Family Tree

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Family

• Eros(parent),Psyche(parent)— Marriage

  Eros and Psyche were wed on Olympus after Zeus granted Psyche immortality. Their union produced a daughter, Hedone, the personification of pleasure.

Equivalent to

• Voluptas(Roman)

  Voluptas is the Latin name for Hedone, the personification of pleasure — both represent the same divine concept of sensual delight, and Apuleius uses Voluptas as the Roman rendering of the Greek figure.

  ⚠ Hedone as daughter of Eros and Psyche comes from Apuleius (2nd c. CE Latin), not from earlier Greek sources. Greek Hedone is independently attested as a personification of pleasure without this parentage.

Associated with

• Charites

  The Charites danced at the wedding feast of Eros and Psyche on Olympus, from which Hedone was born. In Apuleius' Metamorphoses, the Graces scatter balsam and flowers at the divine celebration.

• Erotes

  Hedone, the personification of pleasure, is the daughter of Eros and Psyche. As offspring of the chief Eros, she is closely associated with the Erotes' domain of desire and its fulfillment.