Cupid psyche stuvia - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Psyche - ANSWER-A beautiful princess that people would worship her instead of Venus Who does Venus send to get revenge - ANSWER-Cupid, her son What is Cupid supposed to do - ANSWER-Make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest man What does Cupid do - ANSWER-He falls in love with Psyche and makes it so no one else can What does Apollo convince Psyche's father to do - ANSWER-Leave Psyche at the top of a hill to be wed to a monster What happens to Psyche at the hill - ANSWER-Zephry(wes...

Cupid - ANSWER--Eros and Venus' son -God of love/attraction - shoots people with his love arrow -Sent by his mom to make Psyche love a commoner -Misses and falls in love with her - leaves but eventually returns -Roman Psyche - ANSWER--Mortal human woman - very beautiful -Venus is jealous that people worship her instead -Marries Cupid, loses him, finds him, then gets deified -Greek Venus - ANSWER--Mother of Cupid - Goddess of love/beauty -Jealous of Psyche - sends cupid to shoo...

Which goddess was assumed to not even surpass the beauty of Psyche? - ANSWER-Venus Who is Venus' son? - ANSWER-Cupid What did Venus want Cupid to do? - ANSWER-Shoot an arrow through Psyche's heart to make her fall in love w/a beast Psyche had how many sisters? - ANSWER-2 What did Psyche's father find out from the Oracle? - ANSWER-She must dress in black, be left alone on a hill and there, her husband, a serpent stronger than the gods would come. Which wind (the mildest of the w...

Pervagor - ANSWER-Spread widely thought Plurimus - ANSWER-Most Plusculum - ANSWER-A larger amount of Altus - ANSWER-Deep Confluo, confluxi - ANSWER-Flock Cnidos - ANSWER-A city in Caria Cathera - ANSWER-An island with Venus' most famous shrine Flos, floris - ANSWER-Flowers

How is Psyche described at the opening of the chapter? - ANSWER-radiantly beautiful, so striking attractive that men thought she was Venus on earth. What effect did Psyche have on Venus (Aphrodite)? - ANSWER-Venus' temples were deserted, men no longer wanted to make sacrifices ther because of Psyche. What did Venus (Aphrodite) want her son Cupid (Eros) to do to Psyche? - ANSWER-She wanted him to strike her with one of his love arrows and make her fall in love with someone who will treat h...

Aphrodite (Venus) - ANSWER-Which goddess was assumed to not even surpass the beauty of Psyche? Cupid/Eros - ANSWER-in Roman mythology, Cupid is the son of Venus, the goddess of love. In Greek myths he is Eros, the god of love. Eros were said to wound individuals with their arrows, causing mortals to fall in love. What did Venus want Cupid to do? - ANSWER-Shoot an arrow through Psyche's heart to make her fall in love w/a beast 2 How many sisters had Psyche? - ANSWER-2 She must dress ...

Define Psyche - ANSWER-the human soul, mind, and spirit Why would men com to the palace where Psyche lived - ANSWER-to catch glimpses of her beauty Who is venus - ANSWER-goddess of love and beauty and is cupid's mom What did humans forget to do for Venus which upset her? Why did they forget? - ANSWER-clean her altars and pay homage. Psyches beauty Whom did Venus seek out for help? What does she plot to have him do? - ANSWER-Cupid. shoot Psyche with an arrow so she marries the uglies...

Archetypal narrative patterns - ANSWER-basic storytelling patterns found in the stories of cultures around the world adulation - ANSWER-excessive praise allay - ANSWER-Relieve; lessen; calm plague - ANSWER-Pester; harass; torment jeered - ANSWER-Made fun of psyche - ANSWER-a beautiful princess in Roman mythology Venus - ANSWER-Roman Goddess of love and beauty Oracle of Apollo - ANSWER-Apollo was the Greek and Roman god of light, music, and medicine. An oracle was a person wh...

Who was Psyche? - ANSWER-The youngest and most beautiful daughter of a king. What goddess could not equal Psyche's beauty - ANSWER-Venus What happened to all the honors that Venus had? - ANSWER-They were given to Psyche. Who was Venus' son? - ANSWER-Cupid What did Venus ask her son to do? What happened instead? - ANSWER-For him to kill Psyche, but he injured himself with his own arrow as he was startled by how beautiful she was. Where did Apollo say Psyche would find her husband...

how many daughters did the king have - ANSWER-3 who was the youngest daughter - ANSWER-psyche psyche was a ____? - ANSWER-mortal who did venus ask for help - ANSWER-her son who is the son of venus - ANSWER-cupid why did psyche not fall in love at all - ANSWER-venus had cupid shot an arrow to prevent psyche form doing so where did psyches father go because no man admired her - ANSWER-he traveled to an oracle of Apollo what did the father if psyche ask