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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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