Eros and Psyche by AnotherStranger-Me on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

an illustration to the myth about Eros (Cupid, Amor) and Psyche and part of the book by Apuleius "Metamorphoses"

"Psyche's family longs for news of her, and after much cajoling, Eros, still unknown to his bride, permits Zephyr to carry her sisters up for a visit. When they see the splendor in which Psyche lives, they become envious, and undermine her happiness by prodding her to uncover her husband's true identity, since surely as foretold by the oracle she was lying with the vile winged serpent, who would devour her and her child.One night after Eros falls asleep, Psyche carries out the plan her sisters devised: she brings out a dagger and a lamp she had hidden in the room, in order to see and kill the monster. But when the light instead reveals the most beautiful creature she has ever seen, she is so startled that she wounds herself on one of the arrows in Eros's cast-aside quiver. Struck with a feverish passion, she spills hot oil from the lamp and wakes him."
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