Poros
The personification of resourcefulness and the means to achieve ends, father of Eros by Penia in Plato's Symposium.
The Myth of Poros
Poros was the personification of resourcefulness — the ability to find a way through or to devise means of accomplishing something. His name means "passage," "ford," or "resource." In Plato's Symposium, Socrates recounts the myth of Eros's birth: on Aphrodite's birthday, Poros (Resource) fell asleep drunk in Zeus's garden after the feast, and Penia (Poverty) lay beside him and conceived Eros. This parentage explains why Love is both resourceful and needy, clever and poor. Poros represents the capacity to find solutions, to navigate difficult terrain — metaphorically the divine principle of ingenuity that drives human problem-solving.
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