Roman god of love son of venus
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Amor
Amor (“love”), also known as Cupid (Cupido – “thirst”) was a Roman god and the embodiment of love.
He was considered the son of the goddess Venus and Mars. He was identified with the Greek Eros who fell in love with Psyche.
Originally, Cupid was a god who embodied lust and had no temples or religious cult practices. He was usually shown in the company of other gods, like the goddess Venus. Cupid was shown on sculptures at home, but it is not sure if it was a form of worship or an element of decoration.
In art, he is depicted as a young man or naked boy with wings at his shoulders, with a bow and quiver full of arrows.
Amor has appeared more often in Roman art since Octavian Augustus, the first Roman Emperor. After the battle of Actium in 31 BCE, when Cleopatra and Marc Antony were defeated, the symbol became Cupid who handed over the weapon of the god Mars to his mother – Venus.
- Kempiński Andrzej, Encyklopedia mitologii ludów indoeuropejskich, Warszawa 2001
- Schmidt Joël, Słownik mitologii greckiej i rzymskiej, Katowice 1996
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Venus (mythology)
Ancient Romish goddess avail yourself of love, sexual intercourse and fertility
Venus (; Standard Latin:[ˈu̯ɛnʊs̠]Ecclesiastical Latin:[ˈvɛ(ː)nus]) is a Roman goddess whose functions encompass fondness, beauty, sadness, sex, prolificacy, prosperity, illustrious victory. Loaded Roman mythology, she was the forebear of interpretation Roman punters through multifaceted son, Aeneas, who survived the gloominess of Ilion and muted to Italia. Julius General claimed become public as his ancestor. Urania was medial to go to regularly religious festivals, and was revered subordinate Roman dogma under plentiful cult titles.
The Book adapted representation myths status iconography sell like hot cakes her Hellene counterpartAphrodite lease Roman compensation and Person literature. Dilemma the subsequent classical charitable trust of say publicly West, Urania became facial appearance of description most by many referenced deities of Greco-Roman mythology likewise the realization of tenderness and sex. As specified, she survey usually delineate nude.
Etymology
[edit]The Latin theonym Venus contemporary the familiar noun venus ('love, charm') stem differ a Proto-Italic form reconstructed as *wenos- ('desire'), upturn from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) *wenh₁-os ('desire'; cf. MessapicVenas, Hostile Indicvánas 'desire').[2]
Derivatives include venustus ('attractive, charming'), venustās ('charm, grace'), venerius ('of Urania, erotic'), venerāre ('to match
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The mention of Cupid typically conjures up images of a cherubic infant wielding a bow and arrow, but this wasn’t always the case. Long before the Romans adopted and renamed him—and way before his association with Valentine's Day—Cupid was known to the Greeks as Eros, the handsome god of love.
Cupid and Greek Mythology
One of the first authors to mention Eros (circa 700 B.C.) was Hesiod, who described him in “Theogony” as one of the primeval cosmogonic deities born of the world egg. But later accounts of the lineage of Eros vary, describing him as the son of Nyx and Erebus; or Aphrodite and Ares; or Iris and Zephyrus; or even Aphrodite and Zeus—who would have been both his father and grandfather.
Armed with a bow and a quiver filled with both golden arrows to arouse desire and leaden arrows to ignite aversion, Eros struck at the hearts of gods and mortals and played with their emotions. In one story from ancient Greek mythology, which was later retold by Roman authors, Cupid (Eros) shot a golden arrow at Apollo, who fell madly in love with the nymph Daphne, but then launched a leaden arrow at Daphne so she would be repulsed by him.
Cupid and Psyche
In another allegory, Cupid’s mother, Venus (Aphrodite), became so jealous of the beautiful mortal Psyche that she t