Reading Notes:Venus and the Goddesses Part B


Venus, the goddess of love, sex, beauty, and fertility. 

Venus has sent her son, Cupid, to make Psyche fall in love with the most wretched of men. Venus is so angered by Psyche because her beauty is causing the men of the Earth to worship Psyche and not her. Cupid goes out on his mission, but he accidentally scorches his shoulder on his arrow, which makes any living thing fall in love with him. He starts to fall in love with Psyche and is struck by her beauty. This fills Venus with so much rage, that she is willing to go great lengths to destroy her own son. Others tried to calm Venus down and change her mind. She felt that she was being ridiculed so she left. 

Story Source: Apuleius's Golden Ass, as translated into English by Tony Kline (2013).

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