neither, he is a god in roman mythology
Cupid is the roman name for Eros, god of love. This is a greek story so I will use that name. Well, Eros is the son of Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty. Eros fell in love with Psyche, but Aphrodite didn't like her, so she punished her severely.
Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, was jealous of Psyche because the girl was so beautiful. People even started worshipping her as the goddess of love and beauty in place of the real goddess. So Venus sent her son Cupid to shoot Psyche with one of his arrows and make her fall in love with a monster. But Cupid ended up falling in love with her himself.
cupid is real believe me!!
Cupid's Greek counter part is Eros. Cupid's Latin name is Amor
As the goddess of love and beauty, Venus was extremely angry when her worshipers turned from her temples to visit the beautiful mortal, Psyche. She planned firstly to make her son, Cupid, cause her to fall madly in love with the most vile and despicable creature on Earth. However, this plan did not work, as Cupid fell in love with Psyche himself. After a plot that Cupid arranged, they were married, although Psyche did not know that her mysterious husband was Cupid, the god of love- she never really saw him. However, as she was visited by her jealous sisters, they told her that she should check out who her husband truly was. She held up a lamp, and recognized his real identity, but he fled after having hot oil dropped on him. Cupid went to his mother's chamber to have his wound cared for. She was infuriated- and decided to show Psyche what happens when she displeases a goddess. Psyche, after fruitlessly praying to the other gods who would not help her, chose to offer herself as a servant to Venus to soften her displeasure. Venus' next plan was to make Psyche do a series of four 'impossible' tasks. Firstly, Psyche had to sort wheat, poppy, and millet seeds. Secondly, she had to fetch golden fleece from fierce sheep. Thirdly, she had to get a flask of water from the River Styx. Lastly, she had to get 'beauty' from Proserpine in the Underworld. She succeeded in all of these tasks, to Venus' frustration, with the help of ants, a little green reed, an eagle, and a tower, respectively. Finally, after that, Psyche (who had fallen asleep after opening the box of beauty) was awaken by Cupid. He went to Jupiter to formally marry Psyche, and she had immortality bestowed upon her. That was the end of the evil plans of Venus toward Psyche; as she had no objection to having a goddess as a daughter-in-law, and with Psyche out of the way, so to speak, she would no longer interfere with Venus' worshipers on Earth.
Cupid isn't real. He is just a story.
Best I can find, there is no Cupid outside of Roman Mythology, where Cupid (the deity's real name) is the son of Venus and Mars.
Cupid is the son of Venus in Roman mythology. So no, Cupid isn't a real being . . . unless you practice Roman pantheism.plus now what would cupid do?and your momIn Roman mythology? Yes.
he has a nice romantic story about him and his wife Psyche, they had a daughter called 'pleasure'. Psyche was a mortal but she was so beautiful that Venus got jealous. So Venus asked Cupid (her son) to shoot one of his arrows in Psyche and make her fall in love with a horrid creature. Cupid got there and fell in love with her and just couldn't do it. So he took her a way to a magic castle where everything isn't real but luxurious and she had invisible servants. By night she had cupid with her but she couldn't see him. One day she grew lonely so she got her sisters to come around, but her sisters got jealous. So they told her that she doesn't even know her husband and that he could be a monster. So that night she crept in his room to see him. She took an oil lamp with her to see, then she leaned over and saw that he was a beautiful god. But then oil dropped on sleeping cupid and he woke up pained and angered so he went away and the magic castle was gone! then he went to heaven and realised he loves her too much so he went to Zeus to turn her into a goddess and he said yes! so cupid and Psyche lived happily ever after!
Cupid because the real cupid is the god of love...so cupid the reindeer was named after him
Cupid is Aphrodite's son. His real name is Eros but Americans call him cupid. Aphrodite is the female god of love so Eros is the male god of love.
No: he was a real person, not a legend