Love as seen through art in ancient Cyprus: a terracotta complex of love and passion.
The myth of the two lovers dates back to the Hellenistic times, in Greek art as early as the 4th century BC. The written story comes from the Metamorphoses written in the 2nd century AD by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis.
It is the story of Eros, the beloved son of Aphrodite, the personification of intense love desire and Psyche, a beautiful maiden, the personification of the human soul. The myth beautifully describes the meaning of love and soul, as one. It describes the obstacles, the dilemma, the disappointments of the two lovers who manage to go through all obstacles and unite with a mystic marriage.
The terracotta of the two lovers is dated in the Roman period and it is exhibited in the Cyprus Museum, at Nicosia.
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