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Psyche Honoured by the People (1692–1702) from a series of 12 scenes from the story by Luca Giordano. The tale of Cupid and Psyche (or "Eros and Psyche") is placed at the midpoint of Apuleius's novel, and occupies about a fifth of its total length. [6] The novel itself is a first-person narrative by the protagonist Lucius.
Psyche (mythology) Psyche ( / ˈsaɪkiː /; [ 3] Greek: Ψυχή, romanized : Psykhḗ Ancient Greek: [psyːkʰɛ̌ː]; Greek pronunciation: [psiˈçi]) is the Greek goddess of the soul and often represented as a beautiful woman with butterfly wings. [ 4] The name Psyche means "soul" in Greek [ 5] and was commonly referred to as such in Roman ...
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is a 1956 novel by C. S. Lewis. It is a retelling of Cupid and Psyche, based on its telling in a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. This story had haunted Lewis all his life, because he realized that some of the main characters' actions were illogical. [ 1] As a consequence, his retelling of the story is ...
Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss ( Italian: Amore e Psiche [aˈmoːre e ˈpsiːke]; French: Psyché ranimée par le baiser de l'Amour; Russian: Амур и Психея, romanized : Amúr i Psikhéja) is a sculpture by Italian artist Antonio Canova first commissioned in 1787 by Colonel John Campbell. [ 1] It is regarded as a masterpiece of ...
Psyché. (opera) Psyché is an opera ( tragédie lyrique) in a prologue and five acts composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a libretto by Thomas Corneille [1] (adapted from Molière 's original play for which Lully had composed the intermèdes ). Based on the love story of Cupid and Psyche, Psyché was premiered on April 19, 1678 by the Académie ...
t. e. Plato 's theory of the soul, which was inspired variously by the teachings of Socrates, considered the psyche ( Ancient Greek: ψῡχή, romanized : psūkhḗ, lit. 'breath') to be the essence of a person, being that which decides how people behave. Plato considered this essence to be an incorporeal, eternal occupant of a person's being.
Psyché. (play) Psyché. Psyché is a five-act tragédie-ballet, originally written as a prose text by Molière and versified in collaboration with Pierre Corneille and Philippe Quinault, with music composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1671 and by Marc-Antoine Charpentier in 1684 (music lost). The plot is based on the story of Cupid and Psyche in ...
Eros and Psyche is a narrative poem with strong romantic and tragic themes: first published in 1885 by Robert Bridges. Bridges was licensed as a physician in England until 1882 when he was forced to retire due to a lung disease. He would then devote the rest of his life to literary research and writing and would be appointed as Poet Laureate of ...