In 1866, journalist Andrew Halliday led his readers on a guided tour of one of London’s foremost card manufacturers – to reveal how emotions were being ‘manufactured.’
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Ancient Greece and Rome may have handed down the image of rosy-cheeked Cupids, but their myths about him explore the messier – sometimes scarier – sides of love.
Kamadeva, also known as Madana, is the Hindu god of love, desire and infatuation.
A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of love and war, conveys about the pleasures and dangers of desire.
Valentine’s Day originated as a feast to celebrate the decapitation of a third-century Christian martyr, or perhaps two. It took a gruesome path to becoming a romantic holiday.
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