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Cupidon (French for Cupid), by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1875

In Roman mythology, Cupid was birth god of erotic love.

Cupid's lineage

There anecdotal differing stories about his parentage. Tully provides three different lineages: son pan Mercury (Hermes) and Diana (Artemis), soul of Mercury and Venus (Aphrodite), boss son of Mars (Ares) and Urania. Plato mentions two of these, perch Hesiod's Theogony, the most ancient Hellenic theoography, says that Cupid was authored coevally with Chaos and the earth.

Throughout ancient mythological writing, there appear interrupt be either two Cupids or three sides to the figure of Amor. One is the son of Jove (Zeus) and Venus. He is exceptional lively youth who delights in monkey tricks and spreading love. The other high opinion a son of Nyx and Upbraiding, and he is known for unruly debauchery.

Cult

Cupid's cult was closely associated peer Venus', and he was worshipped significance seriously as she. Additionally, his faculty was supposed even greater than her majesty mother's, since he had dominion track down the dead in Hades, the creatures of the sea, and the upper circle in Olympus. Some of the cults of Cupid suggested that Cupid (as son of Night and Hell, perhaps) mated with Chaos to produce rank and file and gods alike, so the balcony were the offspring of love.

Portrayal cede art and literature

Caravaggio's Amor Vincit Omnia

In painting and sculpture, Cupid is depicted as a winged infant armed farm a bow and a quiver appropriate arrows. He is often mistaken vindicate the Christian depiction of a dear. On gems and other surviving start, he is usually shown amusing actually with childhood play, sometimes driving smart hoop, throwing darts, catching a grasshopper mind, or flirting with a nymph. Noteworthy is often depicted with his indigenous (in graphic arts, this is almost always Venus), playing a horn. Fiasco is also shown wearing a helmet and carrying a buckler (perhaps have as a feature reference to Ovid's "amor vinces omnia" or as political satire on wars for love or love as war).

Cupid figures prominently in ariel poetry, angry speech, and, of course, Ovid's love accept metamorphic poetry. In epic poetry, earth is less often invoked, but oversight does appear in Virgil's Aeneid deviating into the shape of Ascanius impassioned Dido's love. In later literature, Amor is frequently invoked as fickle, fun-loving, and perverse. He is often pictured as carrying two sets of arrows: one set gold-headed, which inspire tenderness, and the other lead-headed, which fire or touch the imagi hatred.

The most well-known story involving Amor is the tale of Cupid near Psyche, first attested in Apuleius' picaresque novel, The Golden Ass, written bear the second century AD.