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People were intimidated by this sexually powerful, controlling man, who could strike people into loving one other. But social status of women in Athens — the central city of Greek literature — was falling drastically. If a woman controlled his every move, Martin speculates, then mortals had no reason to fear him. When the Roman era began, because Greeks were seen as culturally sophisticated, much of this Greek mythology was adopted by the new ruling classes. And when the Romans conscripted the Eros mythology, they chose to bring over the more recent iteration of the god as a cute little kid.

Centuries later, Renaissance painters took up this imagery and depicted the Cupid figure as a child. The industry really hit its stride in the s after Congress voted to decrease postage rates in an effort to circumvent the privatization of the postal service.

This postal reform made it possible for everyday Americans to send and receive mail—while the Industrial Revolution brought the advent of printing press technology. It may seem strange, still, that we would collectively associate a baby with a bow and arrow as a symbol of this extraordinarily popular holiday. Though Roman and Greek traditions left us with this partly mischievous, partly powerful Cupid, he serves a different purpose in modern culture, Bradbeer believes.

The Greek conception of Eros as a god who used his power for ill is not what Cupid stands for today. Write to Rachel E. Which brings us to…. Of all the forces in the world, love just may be the mightiest of all. According to mythology, the god Apollo found out the power of love first hand one day after bragging about how big and strong and cool he was to Cupid after a battle. Hey Cupid, those are some dumb arrows you got. You should leave the fighting to the big boys like me.

Just as Apollo is struck, this hot piece Daphne walks by. Apollo, hit by the golden arrow, falls in love with Daphne instantly and starts chasing her. Unfortunately, Daphne wants nothing to do with him. Thanks Cupid. Her dad listens and turns her into a sick, gorgeous laurel tree. We all know Cupid can make people fall in and out of love, but did you know he was once in love himself?

In this tale, Cupid is a little older, a young man, so the idea of him in romantic love is a bit more palatable than picturing a chubby baby falling in love with a lady. Venus starts to miss all the attention and altar sacrifices, so she sends down her son, Cupid, to the unlucky beautiful girl, Psyche, fall in love with a gross monster. Cupid begins to visit Psyche in dark every night but tells her she must never look at his face. Which she obviously does, so Cupid gets upset and leaves.

Psyche searches everywhere for her mystery lover and finally asks Venus to help her find him. First, Psyche has to sort a bunch of grain. He can be quite vengeful if someone offends him, as was shown by how he shot Apollo after he made fun of his archery skills and appearance in the myth of Daphne. However, Cupid shows pity for others and admires endurance, a trait his beloved wife Psyche possesses. His appearance changes in the way his mother's does: It changes to appeal to each person who gazes upon him.

In The House of Hades , Cupid is described as a lean, muscular young man with snowy white wings, and he wore a simple white frock and jeans, with a bow and quiver slung over his shoulder.

He has straight black hair, blood-red eyes that looked as if "every valentine in the world were squeezed dry, distilled into one poisonous mixture" , and a face that was handsome but also harsh - "as difficult to look at as a spotlight".

His voice is described as rich and deep, but threatening like a tremor before an earthquake. As a son of Venus and Mars , Cupid is very powerful.

In spite of the fact that he is a minor god, his omnipotent romantic allure makes most of the gods, like Demeter , Hera and even Zeus himself actually fear him. The only known deities who have at least a partial immunity to him are the Virgin Goddesses. As mentioned in Percy Jackson's Greek Gods , Cupid is sometimes accompanied by quite a few Erotes — miniature winged love gods. His main attendant is Zephyros the West Wind, who is under Aphrodite's protection in exchange of his service.



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