Week 2 Reading Diary: Cupid and Psyche
Apuleius's Golden Ass, as translated into English by Tony Kline (2013).
- Venus wants her son, Cupid, to make Psyche fall in love with someone awful out of jealousy
- Apollo predicts an awful fate for Psyche
- She is taken to a cliff and left for her awful fate
- She is taken, by Zephyr, to a beautiful palace
- Her new husband won't reveal his identity
- She begs to see her sisters
- Her sisters become jealous and want to take everything away from Psyche
- Cupid warns her that her sisters will try to trick her
- Psyche listens to her sisters and betrays Cupid revealing his identity
- Cupid leaves Psyche
- Psyche goes to her sisters
- Her sisters commit suicide in hopes that Cupid will marry them
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