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Psyche
eBook
Graves, Robert/Couperus, Louis/Apuleius, Lucius et al
ISBN/EAN: 9781908968579
Umbreit-Nr.: 4931502
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 240 S., 0.60 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 15.02.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- In the original myth of Cupid and Psyche, the goddess Venus becomes jealous of Psyche's celebrated beauty and instructs her son, Cupid, to make her fall in love with a monstrous creature. However, when Cupid gazes upon Psyche he falls in love with her himself - with complicated consequences. Couperus's Psyche is a modern fairy tale and symbolist masterpiece, which updates and elaborates the myth. Included in this volume is also Robert Graves's translation of the original story, entitled 'Cupid and Psyche', which first appeared in Apuleius's Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass).
- Kurztext
- In the original myth of Cupid and Psyche, the goddess Venus becomes jealous of Psyche's celebrated beauty and instructs her son, Cupid, to make her fall in love with a monstrous creature. However, when Cupid gazes upon Psyche he falls in love with her himself - with complicated consequences. Couperus's Psyche is a modern fairy tale and symbolist masterpiece, which updates and elaborates the myth. Included in this volume is also Robert Graves's translation of the original story, entitled 'Cupid and Psyche', which first appeared in Apuleius's Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass).