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The Greeks had no single word for love. They had eight.

Where English flattens everything into one overworked word, ancient Greek drew distinctions — between the love that burns, the love that endures, the love that gives, and the love that consumes. Knowing the difference is its own quiet skill: most trouble between people is really two of these loves being mistaken for one. Explore each, then find the blend alive in your own loving.

ἔρως · φιλία · στοργή · ἀγάπη · ludus · pragma · φιλαυτία · μανία

A field piece, not a personality test — the eight loves are lenses, not boxes, and nearly every real bond is a moving blend of several. Your answers stay on this device; if you save your blend, it gently colours your Soul-Map. The classical four (Eros, Philia, Storge, Agape) are genuinely ancient; Ludus, Pragma and Mania come from a modern scholar building on Greek roots — we say which is which.

Sources

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (1960) — the classical distinction between Storge, Philia, Eros and Agape (Charity).
John Alan Lee, Colours of Love: An Exploration of the Ways of Loving (1973) — the six "love styles" (eros, ludus, storge, pragma, agape, mania) later measured by the Hendrick & Hendrick Love Attitudes Scale. overview.
Plato, Symposium — Eros as the longing that begins in bodies and reaches toward the good. Project Gutenberg.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Books VIII–IX — philia as the friendship of virtue between equals. Philia (overview).
Roman Krznaric, "The Ancient Greeks' 6 Words for Love" (The School of Life / Yes! Magazine, 2013) — the popular modern synthesis. Greek words for love.