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  Psyche, or Psyche (ancient Greek Ψυχή - "soul", "breath") - in ancient Greek mythology, the personification of the soul, breath; she was represented as a butterfly or a girl with butterfly wings. 🦋 In myths, she was pursued by Eros (Cupid): sometimes she took revenge on him for the persecution, sometimes there was the most tender love between them. The myth was first described by Apuleius in the novel "Metamorphoses". The myth "Cupid (Cupid) and Psyche" Once upon a time there was a king whose three daughters were famous throughout the world for their incomparable beauty. Psyche, the youngest of the sisters, was so beautiful that her father's subjects declared that she, and not Venus, should be called the goddess of beauty, and proposed to give all honors to her. Insulted by this proposal, which the clever Psyche rejected, Venus decided to show the impudent ones that the girl was mortal and could not be revered like her, a goddess. She orde...

 Myth in painting Perseus (ancient Greek: Περσεύς) is a hero of the ancient Greek mythology of the Argive cycle, the son of Danae and Zeus, the ancestor of Hercules. The paintings illustrate the ancient myth about one of the hero's exploits: the liberation of Andromeda, the daughter of King Cepheus. The girl's mother, Cassiopeia, angered the Nereids by praising her own beauty, and Poseidon, as punishment, sent a flood and a sea monster to the kingdom of Cepheus. The soothsayers, on behalf of Amun, announced that the disasters would end only when Andromeda was given to the monster to be eaten. Cepheus had to obey. Perseus fell in love with Andromeda at first sight and promised Cepheus to kill the sea monster on the condition that he would give him his daughter in marriage. When the king took the oath, the hero waited for the monster to come ashore and either killed him in battle or showed him the head of the Gorgon Medusa, whose terrible gaze turns everyone into stone, which he ...