The Greeks constitute great storytellers as they, in detail, employ action, suspense, mystery and love throughout their stories. The tone continually changes, allowing the reader to stay interested in the story. Hamilton depicts this nicely as he writes the Greek story Cupid and Psyche. Cupid and Psyche is a tale of an elegant young woman, Psyche, in whom no man would love, only see. The story begins with a sorrow tone as Psyche, being incredibly beautiful, even compared to the goddess of love Venus, can not find a man who will marry her. The tone of the story changes, due to Apollo, as Psyche finds her husband and falls madly in love with him. At this po

The Greeks were very close to their gods. Edith Hamilton demonstrates the relationship between the Greeks and their gods in Cupid and Psyche, Perseus, and The Fall of Troy. In each of the stories, the gods play a large roll. In Cupid and Psyche, Cupid is a main character and he is a god. Psyche becomes a god by the end of the story. In many Greek stories, Gods help the mortals out. This shows that the Greeks saw their gods as helpful and close. In Cupid and Psyche, Venus has Pysche do several impossible tasks. Psyche receives help in each task from a god. In Perseus, Danae gets put in an underground home so she was in no contact with men and could not bare any children. The god Zeus helps her by impregnating her. The Gods overall were very good to the Greeks and their religion life was based around these many immortals they looked up to.

int, her family has no idea where she is and even if she is still alive. Psyche does not know who her husband is or what he looks like. Her curiosity gets the best of her as the plot thickens and the suspense arises. Against her husband’s will, she visits her sisters. When her sisters realize that she has never seen her husband, they put evil thoughts in Psyche’s mind and make her believe that her husband was not a man and would some day turn against her and devour her. Psyche one night follows her sisters’ instructions and attempts to see him. As her husband sleeps, she holds the light above her husband’s head only to find that he was not a monster, but the god of love. Cupid awakes to the drip of hot oil from the lamp to find his wife distrusting him. He quickly fled from her, shifting the tone of the story to sorrow. She went to his mother Venus for help. Venus has Psyche do several tasks in order to make Psyche less beautiful. She gets help on each task and completes them. It is not until her curiosity gets the best of her a second time and she goes against the rules of one of Venus’s tasks. Finally, as the story ends with an upbeat tone, it is Cupid though that saves her and has her turned into an immortal to live a happy life.

The Greeks are always known as great warriors from the myths such as the Fall of Troy and Hercules, but as Edith Hamilton writes these myths, it is evident the skills the Greeks had

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