Against her lover's wishes, she invites her plainer sisters to the palace, where their envy is excited, and they convince her that her unseen bridegroom is truly a serpent who she must kill before he eats her. In obedience, Psyche goes to the mountain, but instead of being devoured she wakes to find herself in a gorgeous palace and ministered to by unseen servants in the daytime, and joined by an unseen bridegroom in the nights. Her father seeks a solution from Apollo, who tells him to expose her on a mountaintop where she will be devoured by a monster. Psyche discovers that she is revered as a goddess but never sought for human love. In jealousy and rage, Venus persuades her son the infant god Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with a monster. Heritage Images / Getty ImagesĪccording to the earliest version of the tale, Psyche is a stunningly beautiful princess, the youngest and most beautiful of three sisters, so lovely that people begin worshiping her rather than the goddess Venus (Aphrodite in Greek mythology). "Cupid and Psyche." Found in the Collection of Accademia di San Luca. Pscyhe leans over to get a closer look at her surprisingly handsome husband.
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