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Eros and Psyche
Hesiod (see Gypsy Girl)
calls Eros, the god of love, "most fair among the immortal gods, who loosens
the limbs and overcomes judgment and sagacious counsel in the breast of gods
and men." Eros's mother, the goddess Aphrodite, upon learning that Psyche, a
mere mortal, was so lovely that men were confusing her with Aphrodite herself,
commanded Eros to make Psyche fall in love with the most vile and base mortal
alive. Instead, Eros fell in love with Psyche and married her. Much later,
after sympathetic gods helped Psyche meet a series of trials that an envious
Aphrodite put to her, Zeus ratified the marriage and the two, as only gods can,
lived happily ever after.
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