Upon entering the castle, unexpected voices announced that the home and its riches belonged to Psyche. Psyche followed the instructions, but once on top of the hill, Zephyr, the God of Wind, carried her down to a castle. Psyche’s father prayed to Apollo for help, who instructed her to go to the top of a hill where she would marry not a man but a serpent. Meanwhile, Psyche and her family became worried that she would never find a husband, for, although men admired her beauty, they always seemed content to marry someone else. However, when Cupid saw Psyche’s beauty, he inadvertently shot himself with the arrow, thus falling in love with her. In turn, the goddess plotted revenge against Psyche by ordering her son Cupid to strike the girl with an arrow and force her to fall in love with the most horrible, hideous beast alive. It begins with Psyche’s beauty causing her admirers to neglect their worship to Venus, the goddess of beauty, and instead worship her. One notable story is that of the god, Cupid, and the mortal, Psyche. The novel was written in the 2nd century AD by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis, naming the main character after himself. The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, commonly referred to as The Golden Ass, follows the misadventures of the hero turned donkey, Lucius, and the stories he hears along his travels throughout the Roman empire. He was mischievous and cocky, and he was turned into a donkey. The main source for the Cupid and Psyche myth is from the ‘Metamorphoses’ by Apuleius, which dates to the second half of the 2nd century CE.
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