Cupid and Psyche Mythological Allusion Source: Edith Hamilton's Mythology
- One of three daughters, viewed as the most beautiful
- She is so beautiful that men begin to say she is prettier than Aphrodite
- Aphrodite get jealous and orders her son, Cupid, to make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest thing
- Cupid goes to take care of the order, but he ends up falling in love so he pricks himself with his love arrow
- Nobody falls in love with Psyche
- Psyche then gets whisked away to a mountain after receiving an oracle that says her husband to be waits there
- Her husband comes at night, and tells her she must never try and see what he looks like
- Her sisters tell Psyche she needs to see who this person is
- Her husband ends up being Cupid, she sees him and because of that she'll never see him again because she broke the rules
- Psyche then goes to Aphrodite for forgiveness; she then has to complete a task for Cupid's lover
- She has to collect Persephone's beauty in a box and is told not to open it
- She opens it and falls into a deep sleep
- Cupid wakes her up and they live happily ever after
Commentary: The plot line of this myth is fairly similar to the fairy-tale
Sleeping Beauty. Aurora and Psyche are both extremely beautiful girls, Cupid pricks himself with an arrow and Aurora pricks herself with a needle, Aurora falls into a deep sleep and so does Psyche, both are waken up by their true love in the end. The parallels between the two are amazing.
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