Shakespeare's Myths
Anacreontea. “The Rub of Love”, “Bargain”, “The Test”, “Before the Shadows”, “The Midnight Guest”, “Cupid Wounded”, “Cupid Received by Anacreon”.
Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica, III, 119-66; III, 275-98; IV, 445-51.
Apuleius. The Golden Ass, 4-6.
Hesiod. Theogony, 120-22, 201.
Horace. Odes II, viii, 14.
Lucian. Dialogues of the Gods, 6, “Eros and Zeus”, 20, 23, “Aphrodite and Eros”.
Lucian. Erotes.
Lucretius. De rerum natura IV, 1050-1279.
Moschus. Odes, I: The Runaway Love.
Orphic Hymns, 58, “To Eros”.
Ovid. Metamorphoses, I, 453-566; III, 620; V, 363-84; IX, 515; X, 311ff.
Pausanias. Description of Greece, V, ii, 8; IX, xxvii, 1-4; IX, xxxi, 3.
Philostratus. Imagines, I, 6.
Plato. Symposium, 178B-C, 199C-212C and passim.
Plutarch. Erotikos (Dialogue on Love).
Theocritus. Idylls, X, 19ff.
Virgil. Aeneid, I, 657-95.
Virgil. Eclogues, VIII, 41-50.
How to cite
Jane Kingsley-Smith. “Cupid.” 2011. In A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Classical Mythology (2009-), ed. Yves Peyré. http://www.shakmyth.org/myth/70/cupid/classical+sources
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