![]() ![]() But Cupid has by now developed a heavy crush on Psyche, pretty as she is (no, pardon me, stunningly beautiful as she is), and he gets the wind god Zephyr to carry her off the mountain to a secret palace, staffed by invisible servants (!). Meanwhile, Psyche’s father is told that she needs to be sacrificed to the gods, exposed on a mountain peak, so that’s what they do. The goddess Venus gets ticked off at her – purely jealous spite on her part because humans are saying Psyche is Venus walking the earth – and sends her son Cupid out to kill the girl. C&P is the story of a king who has three daughters, the youngest of which, Psyche, is extremely beautiful (sound familiar already?). Now why am I even going into that whole thing? Because Cupid and Psyche, a story written by the second-century Latin writer Apuleius, is the earliest prototype of the “Beauty and the Beast” type of tale. ![]() But then I’d just read Cupid and Psyche, which helps a lot. ![]() ![]() It’s been years since I’d read it, if not decades, and mostly what I remembered of it was that I found it kind of confusing. A couple of days ago, in the course of this study, I pulled out my copy of Till We Have Faces and started to reread it. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |