Cupid and Psyche

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Cupid and Psyche
Chapter 5

• By Katie Cale,
• Caleb Matthews,
• Meghan Gonzalez

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Cupid

• God of Love
• Falls in love with Psyche
• Son of Venus
• Beautiful Winged Youth

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Psyche

• Beautiful
• Only adored not loved
• Cupid loved Psyche
• Curious
• Had two sisters, both were happily married
• Psyches dad was a king

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Venus

• Goddess of love
• Mother of Cupid
• Jealous of Psyche

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Cupid and Psyche

• Once upon a time a king had three lovely young
  daughters.
• Psyche was the most beautiful.
• His other two daughters became happily married to
  other kings.

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• Venus is angry that people are neglecting her
  temple.
• All her honor is being given to P.
• V calls her son Cupid to make P fall in love with
  something ugly.

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• V, not thinking, doesnt suspect C falling in
  love with P.
• Without V knowing, C does in fact fall in love
  with P.

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• Meanwhile, no one will accept P for marriage,
  although they do think she is beautiful.

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• When her father asks Apollo for advice, he says
  to dress P in mourning clothes and put her on the
  top of a rocky hill so that winged serpent will
  come to make her his wife.

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• P sees that her beauty has ruined her life.
• P falls asleep after smelling something
  wonderful.

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• P awakes outside a house that was made for her.
• Voices tell her that they are her servants.
• P meets a man without seeing who or what he is
  and is comforted by him

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• Ps sisters come to the hill where P left.
• P promises the man she cant see she will not
  leave to go see her sisters.
• The man says that she can go if she will not be
  persuaded to look upon her new found husband.

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• P sees her sisters.
• Sisters tell her to look at him while he is
  asleep.

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• P lights a lamp and sees that it is Cupid the God
  of Love and spill oil on him in awe.
• C awakes and says he never wants to see P again.

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• P is willing to risk life to get back C.
• P goes to see V for help.

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The Four Tasks
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• First Task- Sorting The Seeds. (Ant help)
• Second Task- The Golden Fleece (Reed help)
• Third Task- Fill a flask w/ water from the river
  Styx. (Eagle help)
• Fourth Task- Persephones Beauty (Gets Directions
  From the Tower)

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• P opens the box of beauty and falls asleep.
• C awakes her.
• C and P officially get married. (officially)

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Cupid and Psyche

• P becomes a goddess.
• V has no objection.
• .and they all lived happily ever after.