Cupid

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.1 Cupid

  Roman god of love, son of Venus; he steals a metrical foot to drag the would-be epic poet down into elegy. Amor is at once the god and the passion.

• The Art of Love §1.1 tender Love

  Amor/Cupid, the winged boy-god of desire, son of Venus; Ovid plays him as a wild colt to be broken and steered.

• The Art of Love §2.1 that boy who roams

  Amor (Cupid), the winged boy-god of desire, fickle and hard to confine.

• The Art of Love §3.1 the boy who flies

  Amor/Cupid, who flies over all the world, granting victory in love.

• The Heroides §2 weapons

  Cupid's twin weapons, the bow and the torch, 'that do too much against' the lovesick Phyllis.

• The Heroides §4 Love

  Amor (Cupid), god of love; Phaedra makes him the author and excuse of her letter.

• The Heroides §7 Love

  Cupid (Amor), here called Venus's 'brother,' whom Dido bids fight on her behalf.

• The Heroides §8 the swift god

  Cupid, the winged god of love, to whose 'darts' Menelaus too once succumbed.

• The Heroides §15 Love

  Cupid (Amor), begged to wing Sappho's fall from the rock.

• The Heroides §15 Cupid

  The god of love, imagined steering Phaon's ship home to Sappho.

• The Heroides §16 little Cupid

  Cupid, painted attending Venus on the stern of Paris's ship, the 'surety' of his marriage.

• The Heroides §20 Love

  Cupid, whom Acontius credits with the cunning words of his trick.

• Letters from the Black Sea §1.4 arts of Cupid

  Cupid (Amor), whose magic made Medea love and aid Jason; Ovid bitterly recalls that love-craft, which his own teaching of love only harmed him.

• Letters from the Black Sea §3.3 Love stood there

  Cupid (Amor/Love), god of desire and patron of Ovid's love-poetry, who appears to him in a dream, disheveled and reproached as the cause of his teacher's exile.

• Metamorphoses §1.9 Cupid

  The winged boy-god of love (Amor), son of Venus; his golden arrow makes Apollo love, his leaden one makes Daphne flee.

• Metamorphoses §10.302 Cupid

  Cupid, who disclaims Myrrha's love as none of his doing.

• The Cure for Love §1 Cupid

  Amor/Cupid, the winged boy-god of desire, son of Venus; Ovid casts himself as the deserter-soldier of the love-god he once served, now turning his own art to love's cure.

• The Cure for Love §12 quivered Loves

  The Amores — winged, quiver-bearing Cupids — the proper subject of elegy as against epic or tragedy.

• The Cure for Love §13 that boy

  Cupid (Amor), the boy-god of love, urged here to bend his bow more fiercely.