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Cupid was the enemy of chastity, and the poet Ovid opposes him to Diana, the virgin goddess of the hunt who likewise carries a bow but who hates Cupid's passion-provoking arrows. [71] Cupid is also at odds with Apollo, the archer-brother of Diana and patron of poetic inspiration whose love affairs almost always end disastrously. Ovid jokingly ...
On the basis of surviving Roman frescoes in which Apollo serenades a woman, Peter E. Knox believes there was a lost version of the myth in which “Apollo first attempts to woo the maiden with song before he becomes violent.” [1] Ovid's version of the myth is the earliest one to include Cupid, and he probably invented the arrow that makes ...
Cupid is forever linked to Valentine's Day, but how much do you know about this chubby mythical matchmaker? The post Why Is Cupid the Symbol of Valentine’s Day? appeared first on Reader's Digest.
She replied that Cupid is like the bee: small but capable of inflicting painful wounds. Venus' answer alludes to Cupid's explosive force, capable of leading human beings to the loss of reason or to destruction. Bee stings correspond to the wounds caused by Cupid's arrows, which make humans victims of a painful desire for love (voluptas). [12] [1]
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Cupid's Arrows" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection. It was first published in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection.
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Duquesnoy's Apollo and Cupid is first recorded in and inventory of Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein at Feldsberg. It has been suggested that Karl Eusebius commissioned this oeuvre himself. [2] The subject of the sculpture has been determined to be Apollo instructing Cupid how to shoot an arrow, with Cupid depicted while imitating him.