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Article: Pandora's Box.(Language Corner)
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- Swiss News
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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The maiden named Psyche was so beautiful that she amused Aphrodite's jealousy. Therefore, the love goddess instructed her son Amor to use his arrow so as to get Psyche infatuated with the most detestable mortal man. Instead the disobedient Amor fell in love with her Making love to her every dark night. Amor strictly forbade Psyche to look at his face. But one night, Psyche yielded to her curiosity and discovered her lover to be the divine Amor, whereupon the enraged god immediately left her.
The vengeful Aphrodite now subjected her unwanted mortal "daughter in law" to countless ordeals. She was even told to fetch the Box of Pandora from Hades--the realm of the ...