In classical cupid,meaning "passionate desire" is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. he was increasingly portrayed as a chubby boy. Cupid was never going to be an angel. Cupid was born out of an affair,one of many,that his married mother, the love Goddess Venus, was having with Cupid's father,the God of War, Mars. A turbulent conception by parents with turbulent personalities. Fitting, then, that in Roman mythology Cupid is the God of Desire. 