Psyche

The personification of the Soul; the word literally means Breath but has come to mean The Breath of Life, i.e., the soul.

The story of the love between Psyche and Cupid as told in The Golden Ass by Apuleius (fl. 155 CE) is essentially Roman in nature but has been adopted as a Greek story because it is assumed that the Roman version of the story was taken from an older Greek tale; an old woman was trying to amuse some young women who had been taken prisoner by a group of robbers and told the story of how Venus was trying to make Psyche fall in love with a mortal man and enlisted Cupid’s help but when Cupid saw Psyche he forgot his mission and fell in love with her himself.