The Four Loves

[Melody <Malady579@hotmail.com>]

Wendy asked:
> So. Instead, I'm just going to ask a question: Will someone with
> better knowledge of the Greek language than I have (which means
> probably everyone <g>) please post pronunciations for the Four
> Loves? Well, I can guess at a couple of them, but storge and agape
> have really left me wondering. :-)

Hmm, let me try to do this.
(I have a touch of a Southern accent so my pronuciation may be a bit
off.  I am the one, after all, that calls Sirius:cirrus.  But, I was
taught pronunciations in a Greek college course, so they probably are
correct.)

Philo - phee-lo (as in philosophy - love of wisdom)

eros - err-os (erotic)

agape- a-gaw-pe (funny, no English derivative comes to mind)

storge- storj  (like storage without the 'a')


On another note, after reading Cindy's TBAY, I began to realize I
*had* been a bit unfair in the assessment of agape and eros.  I
discredited a lot in fact.  I assumed only agape love would die for
someone.  That is, of course, wrong.  One can die for a friend just as
one dies for a son or daughter.  I guess, I was taught that philo and
storge loves shift into agape love at the point when you put their
life before your own.  From what I learned, agape was the pinnacle of
any type of love and not a side partner.  Is that in fact wrong?

A thought, would one die for eros though?  I distinguish eros as lust
really.  Maybe in a lusty fervor, one might die for eros, but I doubt
someone would offhand.  But then again, Henry the 8th changed the
whole of religion in England on eros really, so maybe death in the
name of eros is not too far off.


Melody