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The first known record of the the poignant tale of Psyche's labors to reclaim the love of Cupid is recorded by Lucius Apuleius in the second century AD. When the beautiful Psyche attracts the jealous wrath of Venus, Venus sends her son Cupid to bewitch the girl and cause her to fall in love with a monster, but Cupid himself falls in love with his mother's nemesis and secretly becomes her husband. Psyche is instructed that she must never look at Cupid, for in looking at him she will lose him. Unable to resist temptation she violates this law.Desperate to find her lost love the young woman commences a succession of grueling tasks dictated by the vengeful Venus aspiring to win him back. Unable to behold her anguish Cupid appeals to the gods. Psyche is granted immortality and the two are reunited and married.Many have interpreted Cupid as the allegorical representation of Love and Psyche as the Soul and their union is still seen as a perfect symbol of eternal love.
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The most pleasant and delectable tale of the marriage of Cupid and Psyches
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Title in red and black, running title, side-notes and colophon in red.
Colophon: Here ends the tale of Cupid and Psyches translated from the Latin of Apuleius by William Adlington. The text here followed is that of the edition of 1596. One hundred and twenty copies have been printed with wood-cut decorations from designs by H. M. O'Kane. Printed and sold by Clarke Conwell at Elston press, New Rochelle, New York. Finished this twenty-first day of November MDCCCCIII.
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