Agapi

Many centuries ago there was a girl named Psyche she was known for being so beautiful that a jealous goddess, Venus, commanded her son Cupid to make her fall in love with an unworthy man. However, Cupid fell in love with Psyche himself. Concerned about Psyche’s lack of suitors, her parents consulted the oracle of Apollo. They are told that Psyche’s future husband is a monster and that she must be abandoned on top of a mountain. The west wind, Zephyrus, saves her and carries her to Cupid’s palace. Cupid visits Psyche only at night and forbids her to make any attempt to see him. Psyche starts to become curious about her lover’s appearance and fearful after her two jealous sisters convince her that Cupid is a serpentine monster. Urged on by them she conceals a lamp and knife in her bedchamber. When Cupid is asleep, Psyche illuminates his beautiful figure with the lamp but a drop of hot oil accidentally and wakes him. Angrily he flies off with Psyche clinging desperately to his ankle. Psyche then tries to drown herself but Pan tells her to win back Cupid’s love. Venus sets Psyche a series of increasingly difficult tasks. Although Psyche fails the final task, the gods make her immortal and she is reunited with Cupid. The story of Pysche and Cupid has set the expectations of love throughout greek society, the Western tradition from the Greeks distinguishes four types of love and has a Greek word for all of them.

Eros: erotic, passionate love
Ludus: playful Love
Agape: love of mankind

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