DISCLAIMER This video was produced by a random student on the internet who loves reading, especially about ancient history and classics. The purpose of my videos is to make classics and ancient history interesting and accessible to everyone. It is important to highlight that I am not a professional or qualified educator, “expert”, historian or classicist. However, I ensure that all the information I use in my video scripts has been collated from numerous credible sources, which I will link in the description box if accessible online. I always work my hardest to deliver thoroughly researched and reliable information in my videos, but please always conduct additional, independent research to formulate a thorough understanding of any topic discussed. Additionally, I am dyslexic, and I will mispronounce words throughout this video, sometimes without realising it. This is not ill-intended or stemming from willful ignorance, and I do make the effort to research how to pronounce words before I start filming, but I often misread my phonetic spelling. In light of this, please do not rely on my video for an authoritative or reliable source of how to pronounce certain words.
Congratulations for your wonderful videos, Cinzia. I use to work this myth with my students -they have to translate some parts of it from the original Latin version. They love its similarities with modern fairy tales and, of course, love the "suspense" (Who is Psyche's husband? Is he really a monster?). It's a shame we haven't time enough to study the whole novel (I think they would love the witch part). We owe a lot to Apuleius. Keep up the good work!
Cupid and Psyche has always been my favorite myth. Not only has it influenced so much, but it's just a great piece of literature and it genuinely inspires me. Love always prevails and all that.
One night in 2014… I was meditating and these exact words came to me… “Love will always prevail” I didn’t even know what prevail meant - I am french. I had to look it up. Loved this video. Thank you dear one!
yes, please on the influence of myth in fairytales. i actually took classes on both of those topics in my undergraduates studies. if no one else has mentioned it, i would love to have a video on modern myth retellings. i know you have mentioned circe and the song of achilles, which i have already read, but i would love to add more books like that to my reading list. loving all the myth/classics content.
the myth of Cupid and Psyche also influenced the Norwegian fairytale, "East of the Sun and West of the Moon". I also forgot that C.S. Lewis wrote a reflection on the Cupid and Psyche myth through his novel "Til We Have Faces". Thank you so much Cinzia for making a video for this important myth that everyone should know. P.S. I would absolutely love to hear your thoughts on the connection between Fairy Tales and Mythology. Lewis, Tolkien, and the Inklings loved both and it had influenced their thinking and worldview especially in their writing of fantasy literature.
@@gnova7 I was going to mention it if no one else did. It's a fascinating story, and important, IMO. Quite possibly Lewis's most underrated fiction (with the possible exception of the Space Trilogy).
I adore how you explained this story! Also the CC had a mistake and listed "The river sticks and cockatoos, for those who are unfamiliar are rivers of the underworld." Absolutely more fun than lilac lions.
This is actually a Greek myth I don't know super well, just the bare bones of it, so I loved hearing it in its entirety. I love learning about myths, fairytales, and folklore, so I will eat up any other videos you make on said topics! I would be really interested to hear how we define myths vs. fairytales.
I must of heard/read this story a thousand times, but you made it seem really fresh and new. I had never made the connection before with Beauty and the Beast; but I had never figured out that the Lion King was Hamlet till someone spelled it out to me lol. Thank you for another great video!
i enjoyed this. love how strong anicent works are that they still effect our mondern ideals. makes me wonder how we'd be effected if we had more complete works from then.
I enjoyed your telling. I has a lot of parallels to Hercules and other hero myths I hadn't noticed before. A goddess has it out for you, labors/quests, tragic marriages, enraged family murders, etc. Fewer feats of prowess and more clever thinking, cooperative action, and kindness of strangers to overcome it seems. Any other woman focused heroic journeys from myth you can suggest?
I haven't event watched all of this and I'm commenting, due to excitement. Cupid/Eros and Psyche was the topic for one if my first research papers and probably the reason I am so fond of the Monster/Animal Spouse folklore trope. Check out East of the Sun and West of the Moon for a related tale!
I love how many details you give of the myths you cover. Mythology can be really dry going direct to sources without context, and summaries often skip over a lot of really interesting details, so I really appreciate your ability to distil information down to something intelligible and engaging. Top of my list to hear more about would be how the myths of Psyche relate to our modern definition of the word. And more broadly, how many other ancient Greek words have ended up in English... they seem like distorted echoes from the past to me, it would be really nice to attach real meaning to the fragments of an old language that are in my lexicon.
I love the Myth of Eros and Psyche!! And The Beauty and The Beast is my favorite fairy tale! I love greek mythology and Mythology in general, and I love to see how it influence stories over the millenia, century and even today, Mythology still continue to inspire story-telller.
The task given to Psyche and those that come to her aid reminds me of an African tale: Mufaro's Beautiful Daugheters. It seems to be a retelling of Cinderella.
I would love to watch a video of you talking about the fates of Greek mythology, also only recently found your YT channel and I can honestly say I love it ❤️
I can't get enough of this kind of content. I'm an amatuer history nerd so I greatly appreciate these videos for giving me more insight into the myths I have only a basic understanding of. Keep up the good work!
My PhD specialises in greek myth. If I had more spare time to research outside my field, I would. But as I’m full-time self-employed and a PhD student, I don’t have any free time, so I can only write about what I research for my studies. If I had more free time, I would! But I have to be sensible and combine my RUclips with my PhD work to keep my workload streamlined.
Yes please more about myths influencing fairy tales! I had a dream this week I had to write an essay on this and woke up curious!! Love your work Cinzia.
I'd love a video on the influence of myths on fairytales, I find it so interesting! I recently found your account and you're so thorough and easy to listen to.
Very nice telling, i fairly enjoyed listening to it. Other very impactful Myth would be the one about Cronos, the one about Prometeus or the Perseus-Saga. I'm pretty new to your content, so i don't know if you've already done them. Sorry if my English is a bit clunky. I'm tuning in from Germany and don't use it often 😅.
I have loved watching this! Partly because I enjoy getting to know more about ancient myths (and their influence on modern day culture) but also because you tell the story in a digestable, witty and knowledgeble way in my opinion! I also really liked when you read to us from some of your books back in december (i believe?) for the same reason. Thank you
Well, of course, Shakespeare was influenced by the myth also in his creation of the intertwining plots of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The story centers around a flower that has been accidentally struck by one of Cupid's arrows, thus giving it the arrow's power to make people whose eyelids are stroked with the flower nectar to fall in love with the first living creature they see. Mayhem ensues when Oberon King of the Fairies and his mischievous minion Puck begin deploying the nectar during the midsummer night of the title. Oberon, like Venus with Psyche, is out to use the flower for revenge, in his case against his queen Titania, by causing her to "wake when some vile thing is near."
I'm so happy to hear about this myth's significance because it is my absolute favourite! A story where a human woman gets involved with a god and lives to tell the tale AND is turned into a goddess herself? Practically unheard of by Greek myth standard lmao
This is sooo fascinating and i love your enthusiastic way of telling the story! Man, soo many of these myths have just horrible miscommunication ! This is the first myth I've actually really enjoyed listening to! I think it's because of your way of telling it
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I loved your video. I love greek mythology and I'd love for you to do more videos on that topic. I bet you know a bunch of stories that are perhaps not that common. I am really into classical art and much of greek mythology is often referenced there, so I have to look up those myths. and I tend to forget the details, so I am always happy to have them refreshed in an entertaining way :)
Today at my Episcopal church we read a crazy story about absent bridegroom, jealous sisters, and oil lamps. My ears perked up. Was this yet another retelling? Who’s Tabitha/Dorkus? What’s up with parable of ten virgins?! (In Matthew.)I love your video. More questions than answers but that’s fun.
I would love a video or series on how features of these myths are repeated and spread to other cultures. The animal bride/groom appears all over the world. The three impossible tasks are everywhere as well. I find the similarities in myths and folklore across cultures and geographic areas fascinating!
Stories derived from/related to Cupid and Psyche are generally in the 400 range of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther index of folklore, with the most direct versions in ATU 425 (subtypes A, B, and C).
Hi, you have a great channel. Your history and mythology topics are highly interesting. Any more videos regarding these categories would be splendid. Good day to you.
So many fairytales borrowed directly from this myth. One of the few with a happy ending. Love it. Carl Urban, who portrayed Cupid/Eros on Xena was definitely no infant but he was a babe :D And his presence was not usually welcome by mortals due to the chaos he caused.
Very interesting video! Beauty and the Beast has always been my favorite and I’ve read several from different eras and modern interpretations. Personally, I prefer the Beast. Prince Adam can stay gone, imho. Not sure what that says about me, but I loved the story of Eros and Psyche so much so that I named my parakeets I got in high school. I live your videos, and I’d love to see more videos about how myth j formed fairy tales. Love something from Northern Europe, Celtic or Norse.
To borrow from the source word for Psyche, I would say that that retelling of the myth is a breath of fresh air. Well told. Psukhē: breath, life or soul. Psyche being the personification of the soul as female, being one which deeply desires Cupido, the personification of cupere, or to love or desire. That the female love often does not know her true love and fears snakes or predators, and what her child would be, deeply enters the psyche. The overall story, though, is one of a woman overcoming feminine vices via feminine virtues, with some help from the gods. I would say you have hit the nail on the head with this one. The archetype of Psyche as in the Golden Ass, is one which pervades much of our culture. Those images are strongly there. Popular, albeit controversial, psychologist, Jordan Peterson likes to call Beauty and the Beast the female hero/archetype and claims something in it about evolutionary psychology. Regardless of its origin, culture or our very DNA as a species, it is a potent myth, and one we see in the West far more than in societies where Psyche has been suppressed, and it is a worthy story and a worthwhile myth. I quite enjoyed the story.
The enchanted furniture in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - were they there in any pre-Disney versions? I admit that it’s been years since I read the story (had already been a few years by the time the movie came out) but the Disney movie is the first that I recall of any enchanted furniture in the story.
Man, Venus was, like, constantly just trying to take everyone down a peg. Did she not have anything else to do other than just get jelly over any person who was pretty?
Excuse my French but, I-FUCKING-LOVE-THIS-MYTH!!!! I'm a sucker for these type of stories in Folk Tales and Mythology. I love the Celtic story similar to this one called Oisin and the Land of Youth.
I wonder what your thoughts are @LadyoftheLibrary about the story of the show Killing Eve. In the book and show, the myth of Cupid and Psyche is used to relate to Eve and Villanelle. And I'm kind of wondering who's who?
"I am going to be Cupid. And I'm going to shoot my sparrow at unsuspecting victims and they are going to get hit and say, "I'm in love. I was hit by Cupid's sparrow." Funny little bird, but he gets the job done." quote from the great Michael Gary Scott.
DISCLAIMER
This video was produced by a random student on the internet who loves reading, especially about ancient history and classics. The purpose of my videos is to make classics and ancient history interesting and accessible to everyone. It is important to highlight that I am not a professional or qualified educator, “expert”, historian or classicist. However, I ensure that all the information I use in my video scripts has been collated from numerous credible sources, which I will link in the description box if accessible online. I always work my hardest to deliver thoroughly researched and reliable information in my videos, but please always conduct additional, independent research to formulate a thorough understanding of any topic discussed. Additionally, I am dyslexic, and I will mispronounce words throughout this video, sometimes without realising it. This is not ill-intended or stemming from willful ignorance, and I do make the effort to research how to pronounce words before I start filming, but I often misread my phonetic spelling. In light of this, please do not rely on my video for an authoritative or reliable source of how to pronounce certain words.
Congratulations for your wonderful videos, Cinzia. I use to work this myth with my students -they have to translate some parts of it from the original Latin version. They love its similarities with modern fairy tales and, of course, love the "suspense" (Who is Psyche's husband? Is he really a monster?). It's a shame we haven't time enough to study the whole novel (I think they would love the witch part). We owe a lot to Apuleius. Keep up the good work!
Loved the video! Your vibe is so genuine and wholesome ❤️❤️❤️ thank you!
Cupid and Psyche has always been my favorite myth. Not only has it influenced so much, but it's just a great piece of literature and it genuinely inspires me. Love always prevails and all that.
One night in 2014… I was meditating and these exact words came to me… “Love will always prevail” I didn’t even know what prevail meant - I am french. I had to look it up.
Loved this video. Thank you dear one!
yes, please on the influence of myth in fairytales. i actually took classes on both of those topics in my undergraduates studies. if no one else has mentioned it, i would love to have a video on modern myth retellings. i know you have mentioned circe and the song of achilles, which i have already read, but i would love to add more books like that to my reading list. loving all the myth/classics content.
the myth of Cupid and Psyche also influenced the Norwegian fairytale, "East of the Sun and West of the Moon". I also forgot that C.S. Lewis wrote a reflection on the Cupid and Psyche myth through his novel "Til We Have Faces". Thank you so much Cinzia for making a video for this important myth that everyone should know. P.S. I would absolutely love to hear your thoughts on the connection between Fairy Tales and Mythology. Lewis, Tolkien, and the Inklings loved both and it had influenced their thinking and worldview especially in their writing of fantasy literature.
I've never heard of Til We Have Faces, this makes me want to look into it :)
@@gnova7 I was going to mention it if no one else did. It's a fascinating story, and important, IMO. Quite possibly Lewis's most underrated fiction (with the possible exception of the Space Trilogy).
My favorite myth. I wrote my dissertation about Beast Bridegrooms! Yes, it's an Ur Fairytale.
💜💜💜💜 YESSSSS I love it
I adore how you explained this story! Also the CC had a mistake and listed "The river sticks and cockatoos, for those who are unfamiliar are rivers of the underworld." Absolutely more fun than lilac lions.
This is actually a Greek myth I don't know super well, just the bare bones of it, so I loved hearing it in its entirety. I love learning about myths, fairytales, and folklore, so I will eat up any other videos you make on said topics! I would be really interested to hear how we define myths vs. fairytales.
I must of heard/read this story a thousand times, but you made it seem really fresh and new. I had never made the connection before with Beauty and the Beast; but I had never figured out that the Lion King was Hamlet till someone spelled it out to me lol. Thank you for another great video!
Glad you enjoyed it, Daisy!
i enjoyed this. love how strong anicent works are that they still effect our mondern ideals. makes me wonder how we'd be effected if we had more complete works from then.
I enjoyed your telling. I has a lot of parallels to Hercules and other hero myths I hadn't noticed before. A goddess has it out for you, labors/quests, tragic marriages, enraged family murders, etc. Fewer feats of prowess and more clever thinking, cooperative action, and kindness of strangers to overcome it seems.
Any other woman focused heroic journeys from myth you can suggest?
I haven't event watched all of this and I'm commenting, due to excitement. Cupid/Eros and Psyche was the topic for one if my first research papers and probably the reason I am so fond of the Monster/Animal Spouse folklore trope. Check out East of the Sun and West of the Moon for a related tale!
I love how many details you give of the myths you cover. Mythology can be really dry going direct to sources without context, and summaries often skip over a lot of really interesting details, so I really appreciate your ability to distil information down to something intelligible and engaging.
Top of my list to hear more about would be how the myths of Psyche relate to our modern definition of the word. And more broadly, how many other ancient Greek words have ended up in English... they seem like distorted echoes from the past to me, it would be really nice to attach real meaning to the fragments of an old language that are in my lexicon.
Would love to hear more about myths and their connections to our modern times
I love the Myth of Eros and Psyche!! And The Beauty and The Beast is my favorite fairy tale! I love greek mythology and Mythology in general, and I love to see how it influence stories over the millenia, century and even today, Mythology still continue to inspire story-telller.
Psyche and Ariadne are the only greek heroines who got a happy ending that they deserved.
The task given to Psyche and those that come to her aid reminds me of an African tale: Mufaro's Beautiful Daugheters. It seems to be a retelling of Cinderella.
Mufaro's beautiful daughters is my favorite African fairytale.
The sisters:
Psyche:
Sweet familiar dynamics
I would love to watch a video of you talking about the fates of Greek mythology, also only recently found your YT channel and I can honestly say I love it ❤️
Lovely to meet you! Thank you for subbing (:
I can't get enough of this kind of content. I'm an amatuer history nerd so I greatly appreciate these videos for giving me more insight into the myths I have only a basic understanding of. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for that breakdown of Cupid and Psyche! I had no idea. I would LOVE more videos like this.
I've noticed you cover a lot of Greek culture, just wondering if you cover any other cultures/mythos? I'm a new sub, so sorry if I'm wrong.
My PhD specialises in greek myth. If I had more spare time to research outside my field, I would. But as I’m full-time self-employed and a PhD student, I don’t have any free time, so I can only write about what I research for my studies. If I had more free time, I would! But I have to be sensible and combine my RUclips with my PhD work to keep my workload streamlined.
@@CinziaDuBois please please make a series of how myths influence fairytales 😭😭😭
Yes please more about myths influencing fairy tales! I had a dream this week I had to write an essay on this and woke up curious!!
Love your work Cinzia.
I loved your telling of the story and context. I would love to hear about mythology carrying over into fairytale troupes!
I'd love a video on the influence of myths on fairytales, I find it so interesting! I recently found your account and you're so thorough and easy to listen to.
Damn, OG Cupid tho... Great video! I'd love to hear more about how myths influences fairytales.
Very nice telling, i fairly enjoyed listening to it. Other very impactful Myth would be the one about Cronos, the one about Prometeus or the Perseus-Saga. I'm pretty new to your content, so i don't know if you've already done them. Sorry if my English is a bit clunky. I'm tuning in from Germany and don't use it often 😅.
I had no idea of this myth. Thank you so much for sharing this on your channel. Its so interesting x
This is brilliant! Thanks Cinzia for this educational content about mythology 💖
I thoroughly enjoyed your telling of this myth. Thank you for this great content.
This was really nice to listen to . I'd like to here more ways Greek mythology and fairytales relate.
I have loved watching this! Partly because I enjoy getting to know more about ancient myths (and their influence on modern day culture) but also because you tell the story in a digestable, witty and knowledgeble way in my opinion! I also really liked when you read to us from some of your books back in december (i believe?) for the same reason. Thank you
Well, of course, Shakespeare was influenced by the myth also in his creation of the intertwining plots of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The story centers around a flower that has been accidentally struck by one of Cupid's arrows, thus giving it the arrow's power to make people whose eyelids are stroked with the flower nectar to fall in love with the first living creature they see. Mayhem ensues when Oberon King of the Fairies and his mischievous minion Puck begin deploying the nectar during the midsummer night of the title. Oberon, like Venus with Psyche, is out to use the flower for revenge, in his case against his queen Titania, by causing her to "wake when some vile thing is near."
I remember reading Till We Have Faces in high school and falling down a deep deep hole of all of the different versions of the myth
I'm so happy to hear about this myth's significance because it is my absolute favourite! A story where a human woman gets involved with a god and lives to tell the tale AND is turned into a goddess herself? Practically unheard of by Greek myth standard lmao
Your Videos are Awesome!! Love your Library 📚😎
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video, I absolutely loved it. It was so interesting. I can't wait to watch more of your content! ❤
the exploration and comparison between Mythology and Fairytales would make a fantastic video essay !
This is sooo fascinating and i love your enthusiastic way of telling the story! Man, soo many of these myths have just horrible miscommunication ! This is the first myth I've actually really enjoyed listening to! I think it's because of your way of telling it
That was very interesting. I enjoyed the way you told the story. Thanks a lot ❤️
Glad you enjoyed it!
I just realized how much I had forgotten about this myth
Thank You :)
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This was super cool. I'd love more of these examinations of folklore.
I loved your video. I love greek mythology and I'd love for you to do more videos on that topic. I bet you know a bunch of stories that are perhaps not that common.
I am really into classical art and much of greek mythology is often referenced there, so I have to look up those myths. and I tend to forget the details, so I am always happy to have them refreshed in an entertaining way :)
Today at my Episcopal church we read a crazy story about absent bridegroom, jealous sisters, and oil lamps. My ears perked up. Was this yet another retelling? Who’s Tabitha/Dorkus? What’s up with parable of ten virgins?! (In Matthew.)I love your video. More questions than answers but that’s fun.
yes please myths influencing fairy tales. I love it I need more.
Hi they just mentioned this story in Killing Eve and I really love how you are so straightforward with the story.
I thoroughly enjoyed this! So insightful and interesting! 😊
Wow.... I always loved the story "East of the sun, West of the moon" as a child, which has huge Cupid/Psyche influences
Thank you very much for this video! I am interested with ways how the myths influenced the fairy tales.
Love the new video I always liked myths.
It absolutely kills me that Psyche went, multiple times, "Bitch, what? I'd rather die."
Angels are so cool! I want to learn way more about their history.
I would love a video or series on how features of these myths are repeated and spread to other cultures. The animal bride/groom appears all over the world. The three impossible tasks are everywhere as well. I find the similarities in myths and folklore across cultures and geographic areas fascinating!
Stories derived from/related to Cupid and Psyche are generally in the 400 range of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther index of folklore, with the most direct versions in ATU 425 (subtypes A, B, and C).
Hi, you have a great channel. Your history and mythology topics are highly interesting. Any more videos regarding these categories would be splendid. Good day to you.
A great retelling- Thank you!! This is still my favourite Greek Myth!! ^_^
So many fairytales borrowed directly from this myth. One of the few with a happy ending. Love it.
Carl Urban, who portrayed Cupid/Eros on Xena was definitely no infant but he was a babe :D And his presence was not usually welcome by mortals due to the chaos he caused.
Hi Cinzia, I adored this video, and would love to watch more of this type of content from you!!
Yes please, I loved your telling of the tale 😊
Feeling indulged with this one 🥰✨
I lovedddd this video!!! Please do more story-telling 💜
Very interesting video! Beauty and the Beast has always been my favorite and I’ve read several from different eras and modern interpretations. Personally, I prefer the Beast. Prince Adam can stay gone, imho. Not sure what that says about me, but I loved the story of Eros and Psyche so much so that I named my parakeets I got in high school. I live your videos, and I’d love to see more videos about how myth j formed fairy tales. Love something from Northern Europe, Celtic or Norse.
I only know Cupid and Psyche from "Til We Have Faces," but I recognized the "Don't look at his face" from the hedgehog guy folktale.
I really enjoyed your telling of this myth. Would love to hear more ❤️
I know I’m late to the party, but I’d love to see more videos about how myths influenced fairytales!
To borrow from the source word for Psyche, I would say that that retelling of the myth is a breath of fresh air. Well told. Psukhē: breath, life or soul. Psyche being the personification of the soul as female, being one which deeply desires Cupido, the personification of cupere, or to love or desire. That the female love often does not know her true love and fears snakes or predators, and what her child would be, deeply enters the psyche. The overall story, though, is one of a woman overcoming feminine vices via feminine virtues, with some help from the gods. I would say you have hit the nail on the head with this one. The archetype of Psyche as in the Golden Ass, is one which pervades much of our culture. Those images are strongly there. Popular, albeit controversial, psychologist, Jordan Peterson likes to call Beauty and the Beast the female hero/archetype and claims something in it about evolutionary psychology.
Regardless of its origin, culture or our very DNA as a species, it is a potent myth, and one we see in the West far more than in societies where Psyche has been suppressed, and it is a worthy story and a worthwhile myth. I quite enjoyed the story.
The enchanted furniture in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - were they there in any pre-Disney versions? I admit that it’s been years since I read the story (had already been a few years by the time the movie came out) but the Disney movie is the first that I recall of any enchanted furniture in the story.
Thank you so much for this fascinating talk about the myth of Cupid and Psyche!! 🙇♀️
You are so welcome!
I lve the Greek/Roman myths. I'm still new and I only catch a few of your vids but keep up the great work. 😎🍻🤘
I love this video!
I was worried people would be bored by this 🙈 I’m glad people like this one.
SUPER. AWESOME. ALLWAYS. ....WE. LOVE IT. TNKS. KEEP ON. MORE. WE WANT MORE. .....BLESSED BE. TNKS😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
have you done a pandora video yet?? i'm late but i'd love a pandora video!!
Loved this, so much education. The more you know😎
Love this story , i wonder if East of yhe Sun and West of the Moon tooksome inspiration from
Yesss more fairytale links pls!!
I loved this! And YES, more like this please!
At first i wondered what the censor bar was for and thought you were talking about sex toys, then I realized it was a microphone and I’m an idiot
I enjoyed this video very much!
I love this, and I love all myths!
Her voice is literally the female version of The Spiffing Brit's
Man, Venus was, like, constantly just trying to take everyone down a peg. Did she not have anything else to do other than just get jelly over any person who was pretty?
My favorite Greek mythology story
If I could ❤️ this, I would.
Hi Lady of the Library, have you seen Antonio Canova's Cupid and Psyche statue in the Louvre?
No sadly I've never been to the Louvre
@@CinziaDuBois travel vlog! :)
Excuse my French but, I-FUCKING-LOVE-THIS-MYTH!!!! I'm a sucker for these type of stories in Folk Tales and Mythology. I love the Celtic story similar to this one called Oisin and the Land of Youth.
Buff cupid sounds that much better :P
Never realised this was the story i always new it as west of the moon and east of the sun
My favourite myth is Cryptid and Psycho
This was brilliant
Outstanding.
Smart, funny, and gorgeous. Thank you for the videos.
I wonder what your thoughts are @LadyoftheLibrary about the story of the show Killing Eve. In the book and show, the myth of Cupid and Psyche is used to relate to Eve and Villanelle. And I'm kind of wondering who's who?
Thanks for good vidéo 👍🌷
Damn. You gotta admire the thirst on the part of Psyche.
"I am going to be Cupid. And I'm going to shoot my sparrow at unsuspecting victims and they are going to get hit and say, "I'm in love. I was hit by Cupid's sparrow." Funny little bird, but he gets the job done." quote from the great Michael Gary Scott.
_Qu'en un lieu, en un jour, un seul fait accompli tienne jusqu'à la fin le théâtre rempli._ Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
And the cherubim in the bible were scary stuff too.
I don't think I heard you mention midsummer night's dream, with Puck inadvertently causing Lady Titania to inadvertently fall in love with an ass.
Why is this the first time I've heard this story ;-;
Did the ants have any connection to the Myrmidons or are ants merely a common cypher in Greek/Roman mythology?
Pleasure is the result of attraction and trial. That’s my takeaway.