Retrieved February 12, Be sure to check out their live webcam shows too. Eden is discussing possible associations between the Venus of Eryx and the brassica species Eruca sativa known in Europe as Rocket , which the Romans considered an aphrodisiac. Cupid is winged because lovers are flighty and likely to change their minds, and like a small child because love is foolish and irrational. Such paintings were called shunga literally: