Ancient Greeks divided love in different categories due to their need to classify and give a name to everything. They had eight different types of love:
- ’αγάπη (agapē): unconditional love, mental, sometimes it can be not reciprocated
- φιλία (philia): affection between friends, parents
- ερως (érōs): physical love, it’s about the sexual aspect; something that cannot be satiated (it doesn’t necessarily have to be satisfied)
- αντέρως (antérōs): reciprocated love, there’s a bond
- ’ιμεροσ (hī́meros): unstoppable love (it must be satisfied)
- πόθος (póthos): desire (imaginary, dreamed)
- στοργή (storgḗ): tender love, sweet (family love)
- θέλημα (thélēma): devotion (love for what you do)