Mythology Demonstrated

As a Professor of History at Hamilton University, I'm expected to present advanced material.  After all, the students have had introductory courses before they arrive here. 

My field is the mythologies of ancient Earth civilizations, Greece and Rome.  Both had so many Gods that there's plenty of material to fill up a year's academic calendar.

The challenge is interesting a lecture hall of bored Sophomores enough so that they don't zing you on the year end staff evaluations.

That's how this fiasco got started.

I planned to demonstrate a myth found in both Grecian and Roman versions, Eros and Cupid respectively.  A young winged male flies around shooting a golden arrow through the heart of a target, creating an uncontrollable desire for the first person that the target encounters.

A little aphrodisiac from the Chemistry Lab, that would wear off in an hour, on the tip of a play arrow, and the students would see how dramatic these myths could be.

Well...

The actor playing the winged archer had never used a bow before.  Sure, I should have asked, but he could have said something.  He missed the boy and girl who'd volunteered and hit a sweet young thing seated in the front row.

With my luck, she was an attentive student, paying attention to the Professor.  That's right, she was watching and listening to me when she was hit by the stray arrow.

The Lab had done a great job.  She immediately swore eternal love for yours truly.

The University Administration, to say nothing of my wife, weren't terribly impressed.  Didn't care what Valentines day was all about.  And in an hour, the coed was back to thinking of me as a boring lecturer, so I don't even have an admirer.