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.

 

PlutarchErotikos (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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