Venus, surpassed by a young princess named Psyche, cried, 'Am I then to be eclipsed in my honours by a mortal girl?' So she was, but only for a time, as Psyche, after a brief affair with Venus's son, Cupid, was abandoned (like Prometheus) on a lonely rock, destined to marry a dreadful monster. Yet fortune turned again, and at the end Psyche was allowed to join the gods, to be united with Cupid,
... [Show full abstract] and to have a daughter named Pleasure.