Nonnus, Dionysiaca; translated by Rouse, W H D, I Books I-XV. Loeb Classical Library No. 344, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1940. Internet Archive The Eros and Psyche statue is made of marble and does not have any other color painted over it. The marble appears as a soft white. Viewed in terms of psychology rather than allegory, the tale of Cupid and Psyche shows how "a mutable person … matures within the social constructs of family and marriage". [95] In the Jungian allegory of Erich Neumann (1956), the story of Psyche was interpreted as "the psychic development of the feminine". [96] [97] Raine, Blake and Tradition, vol. 1, pp. 182–203, quoting Blake's notes on A Vision of the Last Judgment, and especially pp. 183, 191 and 201.

Charles Musser, "Comparison and Judgment across Theater, Film, and the Visual Arts during the Late Nineteenth Century," in Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910 (Hudson Hills Press for Williams College Museum of Art, 2005), pp. 6–7; pp. 73–74. On the other extreme, German classicist Detlev Fehling [ de] took a hard and skeptical approach and considered the tale to be a literary invention of Apuleius himself. [65] Literary legacy [ edit ]

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Danuta Shanzer, A Philosophical and Literary Commentary on Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii Book 1 (University of California Press, 1986), p. 69. Patricia Cox Miller, "'The Little Blue Flower Is Red': Relics and the Poeticizing of the Body," Journal of Early Christian Studies 8.2 (2000), p. 229.

William Morris retold the Cupid and Psyche story in verse in The Earthly Paradise (1868–70), and a chapter in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean (1885) was a prose translation. [44] About the same time, Robert Bridges wrote Eros and Psyche: A Narrative Poem in Twelve Measures (1885; 1894). Theocritus, coming a bit later during the fourth century BC, expanded the anecdote a little in his Idylls ( Idyll XIX). Little Eros is stung by bees when he attempts to steal honey from their beehive. The bees pierce all of his fingers. He runs to his mother crying, and muses how creatures this small and cause pain so big. Aphrodite smiles and compares him to the bees, as he too is small, and causes pain much greater than his size. [39] John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (University of Chicago Press, 1988, 1997), 2nd ed., pp. 108, 148.Edwards, M. J. (1992). "The Tale of Cupid and Psyche". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 94: 77–94. JSTOR 20188784.