What is the summary of the story Cupid and Psyche?

Answer 1

Cupid and Psyche Aphrodite was born from the foam near the island of Cyprus, for which reason she is referred to as the Cyprian. Aphrodite was a jealous goddess, but she was also loving. Not only did she love the men and gods in her life, but her sons and grandchildren, as well. Sometimes her possessive instincts led her too far. When her son Cupid found a human to love -- one whose beauty rivaled the Cyprian's -- Aphrodite did all in her power to thwart the marriage*. Unfortunately for the young couple, Aphrodite was not the only one trying to foul things up, for Psyche, which was the young woman's name, had two sisters as jealous as the goddess. When the sisters learned about the luscious, extravagant lifestyle of their lucky, beautiful sister, they urged Psyche to pry into the area of his life that Psyche's husband kept hidden from her. Cupid was a god, and gorgeous, but for reasons known best to him, he didn't want his mortal wife to see his form. Psyche's sister didn't know he was a god, although they may have suspected it. However, they did know that Psyche's life was much happier than theirs. Knowing their sister well, they preyed on her insecurities and persuaded Psyche that her husband was a hideous monster. Psyche assured her sisters they were wrong, but since she'd never seen him, even she started having doubts. Psyche decided to satisfy the girls' curiosity, so that night she took a candle to her sleeping husband in order to look at him. Her husband's angelic form was exquisite, so Psyche stood there gawking. While Psyche dawdled ogling, she dropped a bit of wax. Her rudely awakened, irate, disobeyed husband-angel-god flew away. "See, I told you she was a no good human," said mother Aphrodite to Cupid. "Now you'll have to be content among the gods." Cupid might have gone along with the de facto divorce, but Psyche couldn't. Impelled by love of her gorgeous husband, she implored her mother-in-law to give her another chance. Aphrodite agreed ungraciously, saying, "I cannot conceive that any serving-wench as hideous as yourself could find any means to attract lovers save by making herself their drudge; wherefore now I myself will make trial of your worth." But Aphrodite had no intention of playing fair. She devised 4 tasks (not 3, this is a feminine story), each one more exacting than the last. Psyche passed the first 3 challenges with flying colors, # sort a huge mount of barley, millet, poppy seeds, lentils, and beans. # gather a hank of the wool of the shining golden sheep. # fill a crystal vessel with the water of the spring that feeds the Styx and Cocytus. But the last one was too much for her: 4. Aphrodite asked Psyche to bring her back a box of Persephone's beauty cream. Going to the Underworld was a challenge for the bravest of ancient mortals, the Greek heroes. Hercules could go to the Underworld without much bother, but even Theseus had trouble and had to be rescued by Hercules. Psyche barely batted an eye when Aphrodite told her she would have to go to the most dangerous region known to mortals. What was too much for Psyche was the temptation to make herself more beautiful. If the perfect beauty of the perfect goddess Aphrodite needed this cream, Psyche reasoned, how much more would it help an imperfect human? Thus, Psyche retrieved the box successfully, but then she opened the box and fell into a deathlike sleep, as Aphrodite had secretly predicted. At this point, divine intervention was called for if the story was to have an ending that made anyone really happy. With Zeus' connivance, Cupid brought his wife to Olympus. There Aphrodite reluctantly reconciled with her pregnant daughter-in-law, who was about to give birth to a grandchild Aphrodite could dote on, Pleasure.

Answer 2

The Story of Cupid and Psyche

Once upon a time there lived a maiden so beautiful that she was thought to be lovelier than even Venus, Goddess of Love. Venus, out of jealousy, commanded that her son, Cupid, ensure that no man would ever love her. Cupid went to Psyche, but accidently stuck himself with the tip of one of his arrows, and fell in love with her. He followed his mother's orders, making it so that no man would look upon her with love, and then he left. Her family, surprised to find that their daughter was no longer sought by any suitor when before men had travelled some distance to court her, consulted the oracle of Apollo. The Oracle said that the daughter had angered the Gods in some way, and must be sacrificed to a monster to appease them. In sorrow, they took their daughter to the top of a nearby mountain and left her there, to await her fate. Soon Zephyr, the God of the winds, came along and carried her along to a beautiful palace. A voice addressed her, though she saw no one, and it instructed her to enjoy the house and grounds around her. At night, when she retired to bed, she was joined in her bed by a lover, who said he was her husband but that she must never look upon him. He was gentle, but he was gone by morning. For some time Psyche lived like this, though she often requested to see her husband's face. He would cover her in a gentle blanket and refuse to let her see. Finally, one night Psyche kept an oil lamp nearby, and when she knew her husband to be asleep she lit the lamp. Lying in her bed was the God Cupid, and what she had taken as a soft blanket was his wings. In her shock, she spilled a drop of hot oil and it dropped onto his shoulder. Cupid awoke, and was angry with Psyche for breaking his command to not look upon him. He fled, and abandoned her. She chased after him, but as she could not fly she was soon left behind. Unable to find her husband again, Psyche went to Venus, his mother, and begged her for help. Venus, who was still angry at the mortal, refused to help unless Psyche agreed to perform labours to show her devotion. Psyche agreed and was set about a number of tasks. She was asked to sort out a storehouse full of grains by their type. Despairing, she asked for aid, and an army of ants came to help her, sorting the grains out. She was next directed to gather a handful of wool from some wild and dangerous sheep. Again, she asked for aid, and the briars by the riverside told her to wait, and after the sheep had drunk, she could gather the wool from their briars that they had pulled out. Venus was not happy to find that the girl had performed her tasks so well. For a final task,s he gave Pysche a box, and told her to go to see Proserpine, wife of Hades, God of the underworld, and ask for a little of her beauty. Pyshce travelled to the underworld and met the Queen of the dead, who gave her a box, commanding her not to open it. Psyche travelled out of hell again, but on her way, felt that she had worked so hard for so long that she deserved some reward. She thought to open the box and take a little of the beauty out for her own use. However, when she opened the box she found instead that what lay inside was a deathly sleep, and she collapsed on the ground. By this time Cupid had recovered from his wound, and was sorry he had left Pysche in such a manner. He sought out to find her, and discovered her laying as if dead. He went to her, brushed away the sleep from her body, and embraced her again. While Psyche brought the box to Venus as requested, Cupid went to the Gods and pleaded for their help. After hearing his tale, the Gods agreed to make Psyche one of their own. She was given a cup of ambrosia to drink, to make her an immortal, and butterfly wings so that she might fly alongside her husband.

Answer 3

Cupid was the son of Venus (Aphrodite) and he was a mamma's boy. In a land somewhere, a king had 3 daughters, one of which was astonishingly beautiful. Her name was Psyche. People from all over would come to the land to see how beautiful Psyche was, they compared her to or called her a Venus. Because of this Venus comparison, the goddess Venus became filled with rage. She told her son to curse Psyche to fall in love with something hideous; a convoluted plot involving a prophecy with Psyche's weirdo sisters and a prophecy of some sort took place that ultimately failed, because Cupid (stupidly) pricked himself with one of his own arrows, causing him to fall in love with the first thing he saw - Psyche. Enamored, he asked for her hand in marriage, with one stipulation - she was never allowed to see her husband in the light. Because she couldn't see him, Psyche did not know who her new husband was. When her sisters asked about him, the came to believe he was a monster. So Psyche, paranoid as all hell, tricked Cupid and while he was sleeping she looked at him. And oh how beautiful he was. She had never seen anything as wonderful. Cupid woke up, found his wife looking at him, freaked out about her lack of trust, and quickly flew out the window. Psyche was so smitten with him the she prayed to Venus to find a way to reconcile with her husband. Venus set her out on an impossible quest to retrieve certain impossible objects, but Psyche - against impossibleodds, succeeded. She ended up fetching a box full of beauty from Persephone in the Underworld, but was warned not to open it; she felt that if she were more beautiful, however, Cupid would come back to her. She opened the box and fell into a death-like sleep. Cupid found out about this and got really peeved with his mother for her interference. He saw the lengths that Psyche went to only to prove herself to him and realized that he missed her, and was still very much in love with her. He awoke Psyche from her slumber and they lived happily ever after, the end, and so on. Psyche became a goddess (or something) at the end too, and Venus was OK with it (or something, the details vary).

Answer 4

"Cupid and Psyche" is a tale from Roman mythology about the love between the mortal woman Psyche and the god of love, Cupid. Despite obstacles and challenges, including jealousy from Cupid's mother Venus, their love triumphs in the end. The story explores themes of love, trust, and the overcoming of adversity through the power of true love.

Answer 5

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