The Metamorphosis of Apuleius

The Metamorphosis of Apuleius

Cupid and Psyche, Beauty and the Beast, King Kong

by Pasquale J. Accardo

323 pages· 2002· ISBN 9780838639238
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The Metamorphosis of Apuleius traces two millennia of changes in the tale of "Cupid and Psyche, " the major inserted tale in Lucius Apuleius's second-century Latin novel Metamorphoses (or The Golden Ass). While folklorists have tended to deprecate the tale's affiliation with the classic French fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast, " it would resurface in the horror movie, "King Kong, " an epic retelling that is in many ways actually closer to Apuleius's original Latin. The Middle Platonic philosophic-religious allegorical interpretation of "Cupid and Psyche" is used to review the courses of the two later mutations.

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