01 Work, The art of War, Eliran Kantor's Erebus, with Footnotes

Eliran Kantor

Erebus

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46x46 cm

Private collection

In Greek mythology, Erebus is the personification of darkness. In Hesiod's Theogony, he is the offspring of Chaos, and the father of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Nyx (Night); in other Greek cosmogonies, he is the father of Aether, Eros, and Metis, or the first ruler of the gods. In genealogies given by Roman authors, he begets a large progeny of personifications upon Nox (the Roman equivalent of Nyx), while in an Orphic theogony he is the offspring of Chronos (Time). The name "Erebus" is also used to refer either to the darkness of the Underworld, the Underworld itself, or the region through which souls pass to reach Hades, and can sometimes be used as a synonym for Tartarus or Hades.

The meaning of the word Erebos is "darkness" or "gloom", referring to that of the Underworld. More on Erebus

Eliran Kantor is a self-taught artist and illustrator, at age 21 he was hired by the resident advertising firm of one of the biggest media moguls in the country, where Eliran directed and designed the national campaigns for the likes of Renault and Visa, only to quit the advertising business a year later in order to focus on creating artwork for metal / rock album covers.

By 2013 his work appeared on over 100 record covers for (but not limited to) : Testament, Iced Earth, Hatebreed, Sodom, GWAR, Kataklysm, Anacrusis, Atheist, Sigh, Mekong Delta, Satan, Tristania & Aghora among many others. More on Eliran Kantor

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