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Cupid![]() Cupid and Psyche (1798), by the French neoclassical painter François Gérard (1770-1837). Cupid (or Eros) was a popular subject in mythological and sentimental works of art, where he is often portrayed as a winged child with a bow and arrows, which he shoots through the hearts of men and women, causing them to fall in love. He fell in love with Psyche, a Greek nymph who personified the soul. In Roman mythology, the god of love (Greek Eros); son of the goddess of love, Venus, and either Mars, Jupiter, or Mercury. Joyous and mischievous, he is generally represented as a winged, naked boy with a bow and arrow, sometimes with a blindfold, torch, or quiver. According to the Roman poet Ovid, his golden arrows inspired love, while those of lead put love to flight.
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| The patch of lawn before it had relapsed into a hay- field; but to the left an overgrown box-garden full of dahlias and rusty rose-bushes encircled a ghostly summer- house of trellis-work that had once been white, surmounted by a wooden Cupid who had lost his bow and arrow but continued to take ineffectual aim. So loud were the shouts of Don Quixote, that those in the cart heard and understood them, and, guessing by the words what the speaker's intention was, Death in an instant jumped out of the cart, and the emperor, the devil carter and the angel after him, nor did the queen or the god Cupid stay behind; and all armed themselves with stones and formed in line, prepared to receive Don Quixote on the points of their pebbles. And this is the song that Zarathustra sang when Cupid and the maidens danced together: |
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