This is a Reading Diary that details my thoughts of the first section of "The Story of Cupid and Psyche" from The Golden Ass written by Aphuleius and translated by Tony Kline.
- I did not expect this story to start at all how it did with the woman being kidnapped. Not the typical beginning to a fairy tale!!
- You don't hear a lot of stories where no one will marry the incredibly beautiful girl.
- Just like gods in Greek mythology they are often jealous of humans.
- It's so strange how different pop culture versions of characters can vary. Typically Cupid is depicted as a baby shooting love arrows but in the source material he is a handsome young man. Reminds me of how Frankenstein's monster is so different in pop culture too!
- Yeah I don't know how I'd deal with the news that I'd have a fatal marriage and couldn't have a mortal child "but a cruel savage, serpent-like winged evil" child.
- All I could picture during the scene where she enters the palace was Cogsworth and Lumiere being there. This really is similar to "Beauty and The Beast."
- Now I kinda wish Belle had sisters.
- Nevermind now they sound like Cinderella's stepsisters.
- Zephyr = Lumiere
- "Thus, without knowing it, Psyche fell further in love with Love himself." Love this quote.
- Nothing good seems to happen to Psyche.
- (Psyche and Cupid from Deviant Art.)
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