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Love: Modern Day Myth' True Love: A Modern Day Myth' a mythologicalo essay Love is a continuing human obsession that is full of mystery and magic. Its power is legendary. The idea that there is such thing as love is neither recent nor culturally bound. For centuries there have been many stories, legends, and myths that illustrate its capabilities. “Love is an emotion that nearly everyone has experienced at sometime in their life.” Its delights, pains, and complexities are explored in books, plays, television, songs, movies, and just about every other facet of entertainment. By examining the myth of Eros and Psyche we can see true love exemplified, but has our modern concept of love become something like a myth itself' Eros, “the fairest of the deathless gods” and the son of Aphrodite, is depicted as a young “winged” boy who is ready to shoot his bows and arrows at the heart of any mortal or god to make them fall in love with the first person they see. That’s why even the name Eros has been associated with love, eros, psyche, myth, god, mortal, been, aphrodite, young, very, true, son, myths, modern, first, even, day, belief, upon, today, though, stories, society, simply, sight, show, shoot, sexual, room, roman, relationship, power, over, one