This production takes on the somewhat daunting task of retelling the ancient Greek legend of Cupid and Psyche, the first written record of which is found in Lucius Apuleius' The Golden Ass. Since ...

Steve Van Der Weele, “From Mt. Olympus to Glome: C. S. Lewis’s Dislocation of Apuleius’s ‘Cupid and Psyche’ in Till We Have Faces,” in The Longing for a Form, ed. by Peter J. Schakel (Kent, OH, 1977), ...

Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, better known as The Golden Ass, is the only ancient Roman novel to have survived in its entirety.Following the story of Lucius, forced to suffer as a donkey until the goddess ...

Originally a story in “Metamorphoses,” written in the 2nd century AD by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (or Platonicus), the tale focuses on the love between Psyche and Cupid and the obstacles ...

In this account, the second-century North African writer Apuleius puts Cupid at the center of his Latin novel, “The Golden Ass.” The main character, a man turned into a donkey, recounts how an older ...

A cycle of five precious tapestries illustrates the story of the princess Psyche who was taken as a bride by the god Cupid, according to the second century Latin novel The Golden Ass by Apuleius. Made ...

The earliest artistic depictions of Cupid and his love interest, Psyche, date back at least 2,500 years, Joel Relihan, a classics professor at Wheaton College in Norton Massachusetts, wrote in his ...

In Roman culture, Cupid was the child of the goddess Venus, popularly known today as the goddess of love, and Mars, the god of war. But for ancient audiences, as myths and texts show, she was ...