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 ...
they think of the cute chubby baby, Cupid. But that wasn’t always the case. The history of Cupid traces back to the 700 BC. He was known to the Greeks as Eros, the handsome god of love.