The
stereotypical view of Cupid is one of an adorable, irresistibly cute, infant
cherub winging his way towards couples to help people fall in love. He’s the
poster child of St. Valentine’s Day, and I very much doubt he’s getting any
royalties off of people using an image based on him.
Of course,
like so many things, the reality of Cupid is far, far different from the
Hallmark version. Most of the reality has to do with understanding the Greek
and Roman (since the Roman gods were basically the Greek gods adopted into
Roman culture [Rome at the time didn’t care about copyright, they just sent in
the legions to deal with troublemakers]).
Read the rest at Criminalelement (where it originally appeared on Valentine's Day).