The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its deities. Of all unbeautiful and inappropriate conceptions this is the most reasonless and offensive. The notion of symbolizing sexual love by a semisexless babe, and comparing the pains of passion to the wounds of an arrow -- of introducing this pudgy homunculus into art grossly to materialize the subtle spirit and suggestion of the work -- this is eminently worthy of the age that, giving it birth, laid it on the doorstep of prosperity.

The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.

Roman god of love; known as Eros to the Greeks

(Roman mythology) god of love; counterpart of Greek Eros

a symbol of love

The mythological Greek god who dipped his arrows in honey.

The Roman god of love. Cupid is the son of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. He is usually shown with wings and a bow and a quiver of arrows. The arrows have the power to make the person shot with them fall in love with the next person they see. His Greek name is Eros.

In Roman mythology, Cupid (Latin Cupido) is the god of erotic love. He is equated with the Greek god Eros, and another one of his Latin names Amor (cognate with Kama).