Cupid is, quite literally, the child of the goddess of love, Venus. In Greek mythology, he is known as Eros, and, depending on the source, was thought to be a primordial god who came into the world either asexually, from an egg, or the son of Aphrodite (Venus' Hellenistic counterpart).
Aphrodite fell passionately in love with Ares, the dashing god of war and publically flaunted her affection. Aphrodite had a number of affairs with mortals and bore many children including the mischievous little son whose name is Eros, also known as Cupid. Eros (Cupid) darted about with a bow and arrows.
They named him Cupid, a synonym for Eros that also translates to “desire.” (His mother was likewise Venus, the Roman version of the Greek Aphrodite.) For the Romans, the character of Cupid was always a cherubic little boy who followed his mother's wishes to make people fall in love.
Aphrodite's notable divine offspring include those from her affair with Ares, the god of war: Harmonia, the warrior twins Phobos and Deimos, and Eros, the god of love. From her relationship with the mortal Anchises, she became the mother of Aeneas, a mythical hero of Troy and Rome.
EROS The winged boy god of love was a son of Aphrodite and her constant companion. (Some say the father was Ares, others that she was born pregnant with the child).
Aphrodite had children also. Her son Eros was the most famous; he was the messenger of love. Eros would follow his mother and would help people fall in love with each other. Usually, artists would show him with wings, and a bow and arrow.
Born of sex and war
The Romans' Cupid was the equivalent of the Greek god Eros, the origin of the word “erotic.” In ancient Greece, Eros is often seen as the son of Ares, the god of war, and Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, as well as sex and desire.
The side of the box advertises Cupid as being the daughter of Eros. Eros is the Greek god of love. As a noun, the word eros means "erotic love or desire." The Romans got the idea to have a god of love from the Greeks, but they named their god Cupid (from the Latin word cupido which also means desire).
Aphrodite and Zeus are definitely related to each other, but how they are related depends on Aphrodite's origin story. If she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione, then Zeus is her father. However, if she is the child of Ouranos, then Zeus would be her nephew. Zeus' father was Cronos, the son of Ouranos.
The goddess Aphrodite had a son named Eros, and he was the god of erotic love. He is often depicted with wings, and a bow and arrow. In Greek myth he was represented as an adolescent, but Roman myths tend to depict him as a baby (Cupid).
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Aphrodite later and of her own volition had an affair with Zeus, but his jealous wife Hera laid her hands upon the belly of the goddess and cursed their offspring with malformity. Their child was the ugly god Priapos.
Cupid, the boy god who makes people fall in love by shooting them with his golden arrows, is often portrayed as being either blind or blindfolded because the targets of his arrows seem selected at random. This notion gave rise to our expression "love is blind."
Once Venus had a second son, Anteros, Cupid became older and stronger. Perhaps Cupid is usually seen as a baby because babies represent the combination of two people in love. In Greek mythology, his mother is Aphrodite. Cupid is the equivalent to the gods Amor and Eros, depending on which myths are told.
His earliest depictions are that of a handsome young man, but during the time of Alexander the Great, poets began to reimagine Eros as mischievous child. As time went on, he continued to age in reverse until he finally became an infant during the Hellenistic period (323-31 BC).
Her lovers included Ares, the god of war, and the mortal Anchises, a Trojan prince with whom she had a famous son, Aeneas. Her most famous lover, however, was the handsome and youthful mortal Adonis.
While that approach has certainly yielded important information on gender dynamics in late-Classical Greece, it tends to overlook the fact that though this Aphrodite is female, she is also divine.
Cupid and Psyche
Instead, Cupid became so enamored with Psyche that he married her—with the condition that she could never see his face.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.470-74. Cupid = Eros = Kama.
PSYKHE (Psyche) was the goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros (Roman Cupid) god of love. She was once a mortal princess whose extraordinary beauty earned the ire of Aphrodite (Roman Venus) when men began turning their worship away from the goddess towards the girl.
When the Roman Empire converted to Christianity, Greek and Roman deities were often portrayed as demons, and Cupid is no exception. He was referred to as a demon of fornication.
The total number of Aphrodite's offspring is generally said to be fifteen, although some sources indicate a sixteenth: Tyche, goddess of fortune and luck. There are seven consorts listed as the fathers of these many children, including the gods Poseidon and Dionysus.
Eryx. The son of Aphrodite and Poseidon, Eryx was the king of the city of Eryx in Sicily.
He must have found out later, since Aphrodite gave Poseidon at least one daughter, Rhode. And she didn't give up on Ares either! In fact, after the bronze net scandal, she bore the god of war as many as eight children: Deimos, Phobos, Harmonia, Adrestia and the four Erotes (Eros, Anteros, Pothos, and Himeros).