![]() This holds true until Psyche’s sisters come to visit. He has her taken to his palace, where Psyche spends her days alone, and spends her nights in the dark with Eros, who’s forbidden her to look at him in the light. ![]() Except there is no creature: there is only Eros, ready to do his mother’s bidding until he sees Psyche and falls deeply in love with her. Her father discovers that the only way to appease the gods is to tie his daughter up to a rock and let said creature carry her off. This, uh, pisses off Aphrodite a whole lot, so much so that she orders her son to make Psyche fall in love with the most hideous creature on earth as punishment. Psyche is a young woman so beautiful that her community believes her to be Aphrodite personified and, to her horror, begin to worship her instead. ![]() So let’s talk Eros and Psyche retellings.įor those in need of a refresher, Eros (or Cupid, as the Romans named him) is the son of Aphrodite. Of all the Greek mythology tales, of which there are many, the story of Eros and Psyche is my favorite (yes, even over Eurydice and Orpheus, which puts my heart in my throat every time I reread it). ![]()
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