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Cupid and Psyche

By W. M.

Can any of your learned correspondents inform me whether the fable of Cupid and Psyche was invented by Apuleius; or whether he made use of a superstition then current, turning it, as it suited his purpose, into the beautiful fable which has been handed down to us as his composition?

Topics: Inquisition, Literature

Locations: Bologna