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What the mythical Cupid can teach us about the meaning of love and desire

Professor Joel Christensen shares the history of Cupid.'

By Joel ChristensenFeb. 11, 2022

Joel Christensen is Professor and Chair in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University.

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This article originally appeared in The Conversation.

Each Valentine’s Day, when I see images of the chubby winged god Cupid taking aim with his bow and arrow at his unsuspecting victims, I take refuge in my training as a scholar of early Greek poetry and myth to muse on the strangeness of this image and the nature of love.

In Roman culture, Cupid was the child of the goddess Venus, popularly known today as the goddess of love, and Mars, the god of war.

But for ancient audiences, as myths and texts show, she was really the patron deity of “sexual intercourse” and “procreation.” The name Cupid, which comes from the Latin verb cupere, means desire, love or lust.

But in the odd combina