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Cupid and Psyche
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Cupid and Psyche
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Characters in Cupid and Psyche
Meet the Cast
Psyche
The fantastically beautiful Psyche is the Greco-Roman goddess of the soul. She is often shown as having butterfly wings, which makes a lot of sense, since her name not only means "soul" in Greek,...
Cupid (Eros)
Usually, when Cupid, god of love and desire, pops up in a story, he wreaks havoc by making other people fall in love. The mischievous little god is famous for causing tons of trouble with his magi...
Venus (Aphrodite)
Venus (called Aphrodite by the Greeks) may be the goddess of beauty and love, but in the story of "Cupid and Psyche," she gets downright ugly and hateful. When men start worshiping the beautiful m...
