Cupid, chubby and quietly sleeping, is a common symbol today … but what did this sculpture mean to ancient Greeks?
Bronze statue of Eros sleeping, 3rd–2nd century B.C.E., bronze, 16 1/2 × 14 × 33 9/16″ / 41.9 × 35.6 × 85.2 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Video from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
