Cupid, in Roman mythology, the god of love. He was the son of Venus. His father sometimes was named as Mars, at other times as Jupiter or Mercury. Cupid is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god of love, Eros. He usually is pictured as a winged and naked infant, armed with a bow and arrows, and blind or blindfolded. A person whose heart was pierced by Cupid's arrow was supposed to fall in love with someone. The story of his love for Psyche, a mortal girl, is told in Apuleius' The Golden Assand other literary accounts.Cupid was the Roman god of love.
Rome and the Roman Empire, the most powerful state of the ancient world. It grew from an Italian village to a city-state and into an organization that ruled the shores of the Mediterranean and much of western Europe.
Visigoths, or West Goths, a Germanic group that invaded the Roman Empire in the fourth century A.D..