Cupid & Psyche

Last updated over 3 years ago

9 questions

Last updated over 3 years ago

9 questions

Question 1

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
HERMAPHRODITUS		the youthful patron of selfless unconditional love
HIMEROS		the leader of the Erotes, god of physical love and sexual desire
POTHOS		the spirit of the language of love and terms of endearment
EROS		the protector of effeminate males, mannish females and those of what we would now call a more fluid gender
ANTEROS		the embodiment of desperate, impetuous love, love that is impatient to be fulfilled and ready to burst
HYMENAIOS		the guardian of the bridal-chamber and wedding music
HEDYLOGOS		the personification of languorous longing, of love for the absent and the departed

Question 2

Cupid makes people fall in love with each other:

By setting them up on blind dates

By pricking them with an arrow

By casting a spell

Though his mother Venus, goddess of love

Question 3

Pleasure

Roberta

Lust

Love

Fidelity

Question 4

Psyche steals beauty from the underworld

Psyche is so beautiful she attracts her own worshippers, like a god

Psyche is brave

Psyche drinks ambrosia, becoming immortal like a god

Cupid falls in love with Psyche

Question 5

Is an emanation of her own courage

Is Zephyr, the west wind

Is Venus

Has different interpretations in different versions of the myth

Is Cupid’s

Question 6

So she can retrieve Proserpina’s beauty from the underworld

Very slowly

By striking a bargain with a dwarf named Rumpelstiltskin

With the help of a river god

With the help of some ants

Question 7

Question 8

Question 9

Here is Stephen Fry's version of the myth:

Question 1

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
HERMAPHRODITUS		the youthful patron of selfless unconditional love
HIMEROS		the leader of the Erotes, god of physical love and sexual desire
POTHOS		the spirit of the language of love and terms of endearment
EROS		the protector of effeminate males, mannish females and those of what we would now call a more fluid gender
ANTEROS		the embodiment of desperate, impetuous love, love that is impatient to be fulfilled and ready to burst
HYMENAIOS		the guardian of the bridal-chamber and wedding music
HEDYLOGOS		the personification of languorous longing, of love for the absent and the departed

Question 2

By setting them up on blind dates

By pricking them with an arrow

By casting a spell

Though his mother Venus, goddess of love

Question 3

Pleasure

Roberta

Lust

Love

Fidelity

Question 4

Psyche steals beauty from the underworld

Psyche is so beautiful she attracts her own worshippers, like a god

Psyche is brave

Psyche drinks ambrosia, becoming immortal like a god

Cupid falls in love with Psyche

Question 5

Is an emanation of her own courage

Is Zephyr, the west wind

Is Venus

Has different interpretations in different versions of the myth

Is Cupid’s

Question 6

So she can retrieve Proserpina’s beauty from the underworld

Very slowly

By striking a bargain with a dwarf named Rumpelstiltskin

With the help of a river god

With the help of some ants

Question 7

Question 8

Question 9

Here is Stephen Fry's version of the myth: