Voluptas

{{Short description|Roman deity, personification of pleasure}}

{{Infobox deity

| type = Roman

| other_names = Volupia, Volupta

| image = Banquet of Amor and Psyche by Giulio Romano.jpg

| caption = Giulio Romano's Banquet of Amor and Psyche, which depicts Voluptas and her parents (at far right).

| deity_of = Goddess of enjoyment, sensual pleasure, bliss and delight

| symbols =

| consort =

| parents = Cupid and Psyche

| Greek_equivalent = Hedone

}}

In Roman mythology, Voluptas or Volupta is the daughter born from the union of Cupid and Psyche, according to Apuleius.Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 6. 24 ff The Latin word voluptas“huic verbo (voluptatis) omnes qui Latine sciunt, duas res subiciunt, laetitiam in animo,

commotionem suavem iucunditatis in corpore: Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37 means 'pleasure' or 'delight';[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=voluptas&la=latin#lexicon Lewis & Short, "voluptas"]Cicero, De natura deorum, II. 23Statius, Silvae 1. 3. 8 Voluptas is known as the goddess of "sensual pleasures". She is often found in the company of the Gratiae, or Three Graces.

Some Roman authorsPliny the Elder, Letters, VII. 20Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, III. 5Varro, De lingua Latina, V. 164Macrobius, Saturnalia, I. 10 mention a goddess named Volupia, a name which appears to signify "willingness".Robert E. A. Palmer, The Archaic Community of the Romans, Cambridge University Press 1970 pp.171ff. She had a temple, the Sacellum Volupiae, on the Via Nova, by the Porta Romana. Sacrifices were offered to the Diva Angerona there.

The corresponding goddess in Greek mythology is Kakia.