Cupid and Psyche

The story of Cupid and Psyche is beautiful. It speaks of love. That is why it is so wonderful. That cliche that says All is Fair in Love and War. That is exactly how Aphrodite and Cupid treat that relationship! Psyche gets caught up in all the frenzy and then so do her sisters. I feel for poor Psyche because she went through hell for Cupid! Seriously... that just goes to show that you will do anything for the person that you love. She didn't even know that her lover was Cupid for quite some time. She loved what he did for her and how he loved her. Aphrodite just plays the jealous woman in the situation. Psyche is beautiful and people came to love her and adore her as if she were the next Aprodite. So, Aphrodite got jealous and sent Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with a terrible man. Cupid does the typical thing and does what he knows will make his mom mad! He decides to take Psyche as his wife. What a guy! He disobeys his mom and hurts her feelings all at once! What is that?!?! Then Aphrodite finds out and tries to tell Cupid that she isn't good enough for him. Typical mom... no woman is good enough for my boy! This story is so great because it is everyday life for me!

Test Monday!!!

1. Which birds represent Procne and Philomela?
swallow and nightingale respectively

2. Ate?
infatuation to the point of being ruined

3. Who was the original artisan/ architect/ artificer?
Daedelus

4. Who is the God of sleep, dreams and disguises?
Morpheus

5. What should we avoid at all costs?
Old people

6. What is the aristophanes' theory about soulmates?
Two people were joined in the beginning and then split apart

7. Tragedy emphasizes (blank) and Comedy emphasizes (blank)
individual, society or community

8. Plato- how does one reach immortality of the soul?
knowledge, virtue

9. Everything Socrates learned about love he learned from a (blank)
woman/ Diotima

10. What is Socratic Irony?
claiming to know nothing

11. What does Icarus fail to do that leads to his demise?
fly the middle path/ he flew too close to the sun with wax wings and they melted

12. What was the contest between Minerva and Arachnae? What was the difference between their pictures?
Minerva depicted the good the Gods do and Arachnae depicted the bad

13. What is the final frame of the painting by Velasques "the spinners"?
Europa/ Rape of Europa

14. What does Pentheus mean?
man of constant sorrow

15. How is Cadmus related to Pentheus?
Cadmus is his grandpa

16. What was Ulysses claim to Achilles weapons?
Ulysses is the one that started the Trojan war/ Glory

17. What Shakespeare play was inspired by Philomela et al?
Titusandronicus

18. What is a characteristic of new comedy?
Boy wants girl

19. What is anagnorsis?
recognition/ the end of the Bacchae when it isn't a lions head

20. First instance of framing in metamorphoses?
Story of Pan and Syrinx

21. What is grace?
awareness of Gods' presence in the world

22. omofagia?
eating of living flesh

23. what is love the child of?
poverty and contrivance

24. How old will the Metamorphoses be in 2008?
2,000 years old

25. What was Daphne turned into?
Laurel tree

26. Naso
nose