Venus, from the tarocchi · Master of the E-Series Tarocchi, before 1467 · Cleveland Museum of Art 1924.432.43

Greek has more than one word for love: eros, philia, storge, agape.1 The neat list of four came much later, in 1960.

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Philia is the first half of philosophy, “love of wisdom”, and of Philadelphia, “brotherly love”.Tell one friend today something you like about them.

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1 C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves, 1960