What 'Cupid' and 'Venus' think about Valentine's Day: reviews, trivia and more from the love gods. Published: ; Feb. 09, 2018, 8:56 p.m.

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 ...

According to myth, Cupid was the son of Mercury, the winged messenger of the gods, and Venus, the goddess of love. Cupid is referred to more than once in Act 1, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare’s ...

In classical mythology, one of the most famous Cupid myths is his love story with Psyche—a mortal woman whose beauty rivals that of Venus. Despite obstacles, secrecy, and betrayal, their love ...

Cupid has been domesticated. Originally, a strapping youth of marriageable age (with wings, bow and arrow), this classical god (Cupid, son of Venus, in Latin; Eros, son of Aphrodite, in ...

Shadae Simone in Venus & the Vixens at Emerald City Trapeze Arts. Photo Credits: Ernie Sapiro . Shadae Simone who plays Cupid’s love interest, Psyche, performed some of the most beautiful ...

By a strictly unofficial headcount, the throng’s favorite pictures appear to be Cranach’s charming 1530 Venus and Cupid as a Honey Thief, in which the goddess comforts the winged child, now ...

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 ...

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, ...

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of love and war, conveys about the pleasures and dangers of desire.