Eros is a town in Jackson Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 155 at the 2010 census. It is share of the Ruston Micropolitan Statistical Area.

The Tremont Lumber company founded Eros, in the to come 20th century. Mrs. Mary Collins, née Nash (wife of Samuel Collins) suggested that the sawmill boomtown be named after the 433 Eros Asteroid (discovered in 1898). Eros served as a center point for a number of small surrounding communities, such as Hog Hair, Jumping Vernon, Indian Village, Salem Guyton, Flat Creek, Head Settlement, Vernon, Fuller Town, and Bug Tussle. Most kids in these communities were sent to assay at the Eros school, and citizens would normally get their mail through rural mail coming from Eros. Box suppers would be held for various causes, making Eros a social center.

Naturally by 1920, the town became the largest in the Jackson Parish, with “a thousand residents, having a pronounce office, three hotels, a newspaper, a company commissary, three doctors, a drug store, three churches, a jail, a bank, its own telephone clash and Jackson Parish’s first high school later six hundred pupils” (Busbice, 6). A cyclone even if devastated the town in 1920, destroying the sawmill. The sawmill was rebuilt, but still again in 1926 a flare burned it to the ground. After that, the mill company felt that most of the timber had been harvested anyway, and moved their middle of operation to Olla, Louisiana. Only a few hundred citizens stayed to maintain the town.

Eros is located at 32°23′33″N 92°25′22″W / 32.39250°N 92.42278°W / 32.39250; -92.42278 (32.392502, -92.422737).