Eros and Psyche

work by M. C.

Eros and Psyche

TEAM

SITOGRAPHY

FUN FACT

THE BETRAYAL03

THE END 05

THANKS

AFRODITE TRIALS 04

EROS'S PALACE02

ONCE UPON A TIME 01

INDEX

01

There was a lonely and beautiful princess called Psyche, who attracted the fury of Afrodite for being too beautiful. She asked her son, Eros, the minor god of carnal love, to hit her with one of his arrows, and make her fall in love with a terrible monster. Instead he, blinded by Psyche's beauty, hit himself with the arrow and fell in love with her.

ONCE UPON A TIME...

Eros' palace

02

When Psyche comes to know her fate, Zephyr takes her to the monster's palace, where invisible servants welcome her and take care of her. She spends time with the monster, but can never see it, because it's invisible. After getting pregnant, her two sisters come to visit her, and tell her to kill the monster before it does, so she goes into the monster's room at night to try and kill it, but finds out that it is Eros.

After finding out that her monster boyfriend is Eros, she accidentally stabs herself with another one of his arrows, and falls in love with him even more. Eros wakes up, and feels betrayed, so he runs away to his mother, Afrodite, furious, decides to set 3 trials for Psyche.

The betrayal o.3

04

Afrodite's trials

The first trial was to divide a pile of sand for each grain by color, and the second was to steal the wool from Apollo's golden sheeps, and she surpassed them with ease. the third trial was to go to the Ades and put a bit of Persephone's beauty in a box and bring it back to afrodite. but when Psyche, attracted by curiosity, opens the box, she almost dies because of the content.

Eros rushes to her and gives her some ambrosia, which makes her immortal, and they get married on the Olympus, and have a daughter named Voluttà

0.5 The end

Even Leopardi made a version of the story, where Psyche was in love with Eros but only before finding out about his true identity.

There are two interpretations of the myth: one was Plato's version, where it was very associated with the philosophical meaning of the soul, the other was carnal and passionate.

FUN FACT

Leopardi's interpretation

Two versions

Artist Canova realised two versions of the statue inspired by the myth: one where the two were hugging, and one where they are standing together.

Two versions

Public

Classmates

The judge

Teacher Croxatto

The sidekick

Teacher Rizzo

Author

M. C.

THE TEAM

Carbonari Monica, 1FL, Olivieri

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