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  2. Cupid - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Psyche (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    "Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire" by Julius Lester is centered around Cupid in this romantic, light retelling. "The Earthly Paradise" by William Morris is an 1868 poem retelling the story of Psyche and Cupid and other myths. "Ode to Psyche" poem by John Keats in 1819 in which the narrator shares his plans to resurrect Psyche.

  4. Cupid and Psyche - Wikipedia

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    It was rumored that she was the second coming of Venus, or the daughter of Venus from an unseemly union between the goddess and a mortal. Venus is offended, and commissions Cupid to work her revenge. Cupid is sent to shoot Psyche with an arrow so that she may fall in love with something hideous.

  5. Why Is Cupid the Symbol of Valentine’s Day?

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    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.

  6. Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Cupid's Arrows - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. No one's sure exactly why this woman had a story to tell, because this woman lived as many as 6,000 years ago. We can still imagine her intoning scary scenes with foreign howls. A charming man's buttery voice might've won over a reluctant, longhaired princess; a beguiling forest creature's dry cackle a smoke signal for danger.

  9. Apollo and Daphne - Wikipedia

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    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 ...