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Cupid

Cupid is the mischievous, juvenile, winged
child, who shots the heart of his victimsCupid has been portrayed in various facets in
with his arrows and making them fall deeplyart and literature. In Caravaggio's Amor
in love. In ancient Greece, he was known asVincit Omni painting and sculpture, Cupid is
Eros the young son of Aphrodite, the goddessportrayed as a nude winged boy armed with a
of love and beauty. According to the Romanbow and quiver of arrows. The conventional
mythology, Cupid was the son of Lord Venus.Christian illustration of a Cherub is footed
Venus was supposed to be envious of Psycheon him. On trinkets and other extant pieces,
and ordered her son Cupid to punish thehe is usually made known amusing himself with
mortal maiden. But Cupid fell in love withchildhood play, sometimes driving a hoop,
Psyche and they end up in a bitter partitionthrowing flits, catching a butterfly, or
after Psyche committed the fault of throwingflirting with a nymph. He is often portrayed
a glance at the god of love. Their lovelywith his mother as playing a horn. He is also
castle and garden vanished with him andshown wearing a helmet and hauling a buckler.
Psyche found her unaided in an open field.Cupid is commenced vastly in Ariel poetry,
Distressed Psyche landed in the temple oflyrics and of course Ovid's love and
Lord Venus for help and malicious Venusmetamorphic poetry. Cupid is not frequently
instead of providing a helping hand,beckoned on epic poetry but he has an
bombarded her with a series of treacherousexistence in Virgil's Aeneid changed into the
and fatal tasks. Her last task was to carry ashape of Ascanius rousing Dido's love. In
small box to Proserpine, wife of Pluto andlater literature, Cupid is cited more often
was told to get some beauty of Proserpine andthan not as mischievous, erratic and
put it inside the box. Slowly locating eachperverse. Cupid is often depicted as carrying
of her steps through the overflowing periloustwo sets of arrows among which one set is
path to her destination, Psyche was lured togold-headed which inspire love and the other
open the box where she found poisonous sleep.set  is lead-headed which motivate revulsion.
Cupid found her lifeless on the ground. He
assembled the sleep from her body and put itThere are some legends which involve Cupid
back in the box. Psyche's intense love andbut the best known saga on Cupid is the tale
devotion for Cupid rubbed out all the envyof Cupid and Psyche, first attested in
and anger of gods and therefore made her aApuleius' picaresque novel and The Golden
goddess.Ass, written in the second century. Cupid's
personality was anything but virtuous. He was
Cupid's cult was strongly allied with Venusreasonably playful and many of his deeds
and he was worshipped as acutely as Venus.resulted in tragic ending of his victims.
Cupid was known to have more power than hisCupid possesses the traditional supremacy of
mother. He had command over the dead inthe Olympic Gods such as superhuman power,
Hades, the creatures of the sea and the godsfortitude and permanence. Cupid can grow
in Olympus. Some of the religious groups ofwings at will and fly, carrying the weight of
Cupid suggested that Cupid got united withothers. He is very proud of his skills as God
Chaos and created gods and men alike and soof Love.
gods  became  the  brood  of  love.



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