Cupid - 2 Weeks Too Late for Valentine's Day!

Cupid and Psyche is a Greek a tale about beauty, jealousy, and love. When I read it, it made me think of the story of Urashima. In both cases, a mortal marries a God. In both, the mortal begins to miss their mortal family, and request a chance to see them again. And in both, the mortal is forbidden from doing a very simple task - opening a box - yet both fall into temptation and are punished for their disobedience. In both cases, the mortal is flawed in that they are human, and could never live up to the God-like expectations bestowed upon them. Fortunately, Psyche's story ended much more joyously than Urashima's.

Cupid and Pysche was one of the more different stories that we have read, in that it, like traditional Greek works, included many Gods and interactions with them. Urashima was also different, being a Japanese story, with different motifs and morals than most of the other stories. However there were still many clear similarities between these stories and other "Beauty and the Beast"-type tales. Check them out on the other blogs from the class.