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Conversations: Modern Mythologizing, Hellenizing Apuleius, Psyche & Eros w/ Luna McNamara

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Sisters of Apuleas

The characters are really all we get from them is their jealousy. And then psyche kills them, even though she doesn't really kill anyone else in the apuleas myth. So with the sisters, that's one of I think the biggest changes I made in the novel because I just made psyche and only child,. A late life baby of this king and queen of my sonnet. Instead I gave her sister like figures. She has Adalanta as sort of an older sister figure as a mentor or someone who helps train and advise her. Ifa Gynia is the one to point out: Whoever you marry is next in the next for the throne. And you don't even know

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