Valentine's Day Trivia Contest Question #3

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Cupid was the son of what Roman God?

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Son of venus
aprofes naia

Cupid was the son of Mercury

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Venus

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Mercury

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Venus

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Venus

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Sucks to have a rl job sometimes.

according to wikipedia...
which isn't necessarily the best source for information...

"In Latin literature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_literature), Cupid is usually treated as the son of Venus without reference to a father. Seneca (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger) says that Vulcan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanus), as the husband of Venus, is the father of Cupid.[10] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid#cite_note-10) Cicero (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero), however, says that there were three Cupids, as well as three Venuses: the first Cupid was the son of Mercury (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28mythology%29) and Diana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_%28mythology%29), the second of Mercury and the second Venus, and the third of Mars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_%28mythology%29) and the third Venus. This last Cupid was the equivalent of Anteros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anteros), "Counter-Love," one of the Erotes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotes_%28mythology%29), the gods who embody aspects of love.[11] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid#cite_note-11) The multiple Cupids frolicking in art are the decorative manifestation of these proliferating loves and desires. During the English Renaissance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Renaissance), Christopher Marlowe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe) wrote of "ten thousand Cupids"; in Ben Jonson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson)'s wedding masque (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masque) Hymenaei (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenaei), "a thousand several-coloured loves ... hop about the nuptial room".[12] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid#cite_note-12)"

so... not sure which source you are using... but that is some interesting dilemma as to who has the right answer.

according to wikipedia...
which isn't necessarily the best source for information...

"In Latin literature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_literature), Cupid is usually treated as the son of Venus without reference to a father. Seneca (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger) says that Vulcan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanus), as the husband of Venus, is the father of Cupid.[10] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid#cite_note-10) Cicero (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero), however, says that there were three Cupids, as well as three Venuses: the first Cupid was the son of Mercury (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28mythology%29) and Diana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_%28mythology%29), the second of Mercury and the second Venus, and the third of Mars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_%28mythology%29) and the third Venus. This last Cupid was the equivalent of Anteros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anteros), "Counter-Love," one of the Erotes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotes_%28mythology%29), the gods who embody aspects of love.[11] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid#cite_note-11) The multiple Cupids frolicking in art are the decorative manifestation of these proliferating loves and desires. During the English Renaissance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Renaissance), Christopher Marlowe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe) wrote of "ten thousand Cupids"; in Ben Jonson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson)'s wedding masque (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masque) Hymenaei (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenaei), "a thousand several-coloured loves ... hop about the nuptial room".[12] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid#cite_note-12)"

so... not sure which source you are using... but that is some interesting dilemma as to who has the right answer.

Mars would have been acceptable. I'm basing the answers off of the Roman mythology. Here's an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid

But yeah different references have different answers. Ultimately the answer I was looking for was Venus.

was the answer i was expecting also until several folks mentioned mercury.

^ By the time I was in school, I've dont remember I ever heard about Cupid (Eros) being son of Mercury (the messenger of gods) or Diana (the goddes of moon, hunt). Instead, it sounds llogical he being son of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty and Mars, the god of fury and war, clearly simbolyzing the analogy about the love and drama.