Cupid and Psyche
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The story of Cupid and Psyche belongs to the Roman tradition.
Venus (Aphrodite), goddess of love, angered by Psyche’s beauty, told Cupid (or Eros) to make her fall in love with the worst of men. Unexpectedly, Cupid himself fell in love with her and married her.
Psyche felt lonely because her husband only visited her at night, and he had also told her that she must never look upon him, or their future child would not be immortal. To combat her loneliness, her sisters would come to visit, and they, jealous of her home, convinced her that the husband she was forbidden to look at must be a monster.
Very frightened, Psyche took a lamp and looked at her husband while he slept. Cupid then awoke and departed. Psyche, filled with remorse, searched for him everywhere, finally arriving at the palace of Venus, where impossible tasks were imposed upon her. During the last of these, she fell into a deathly sleep, but Cupid managed to revive her... and took her to Olympus, where Jupiter made her immortal.