The Outline of Mythology

Thomas Bulfinch's whole mythic world — the gods of Olympus, King Arthur's Round Table, the Mabinogeon, Beowulf and the paladins of Charlemagne — told as stories, the way 1913 read them.

Cupid and Psyche

3 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

Cupid and Psyche

A CERTAIN king and queen had three daughters. The charms of the two elder were more than common, but the beauty of the youngest was so…

Cupid and Psyche: Venus

Venus received her with angry countenance. "Most undutiful and faithless of servants," said she, "do you at last remember that you really…

Cupid and Psyche: Till

Milton alludes to the story of Cupid and Psyche in the conclusion of his "Comus": "Celestial Cupid, her famed son, advanced, Holds his dear…

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