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Chapter 3 The Gods of Olympus (5) 蔡海燕 goddy0223@163.com The Lesser Deities of Olympus Today’s content: Eros The Three Graces (The Charites) The Nine Muses The Three Fates The Three Furies Aeolus Eros THE Greeks told many wonderful stories about Eros, the son of Aphrodite and Ares. The Greeks thought that Eros always remained a youth, never growing up as the other gods did. And they represented him in their pictures as a beautiful lad, with a golden bow and a quiver full of arrows. The golden arrow The leaden arrow The Story of Eros and Psyche One of the stories which the Greeks liked to tell about Eros was of his love for a young girl, and the way in which she became immortal through it. This girl’s name was Psyche, which means “soul;” her union with Eros tells the story of how Love and Soul came to be together. People in her country and outlying areas stopped praying to?Aphrodite, taking Psyche for the Goddess of Beauty instead. Enraged at this transference of her honors to another, Aphrodite called to her help her winged son Eros, instructed him to make poor Psyche fall in love with the ugliest man on Earth. Eros went down to earth to find her. But when he did he, too, was stunned by her beauty. He was so stunned that as he laid his golden arrow on her heart, he pricked himself and fell in love with her. He left quietly, without punishing her. After a while Aphrodite realized that her darling son hadn't quite done his job, for Psyche wasn't falling for anyone, let alone someone hideous. So Aphrodite sent down a spell of her own on Psyche. As soon as this happened, not another suitor knocked upon their door. Her parents got worried. Psyche's mother, the queen, went off to the Oracle to hear what was wrong. -- "Psyche will never marry a mortal. She shall be given to one who waits for her on yonder mountain; he overcomes Gods and men." It seemed that she was destined to marry a monster. Psyche accepted