The story of the cursed prince and the kind-hearted beauty that we now define as ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is first seen in Ancient Roman prose writer Apuleius’s story of Cupid and Psyche in his novel The Golden Ass. It tells the story of Psyche, a young mortal woman, who is so beautiful that people begin to worship her instead of Venus, the goddess of love. As a result, Cupid is sent by Venus to make Psyche fall in love with a monster but Cupid falls in love and marries Psyche instead. Throughout their marriage, Cupid never allowed Psyche to see his physical appearance, causing Psyche to question her husband’s identity and love. This uncertainty begs us to ask "Does the fear of the beast lie in the beast itself, or is it instead rooted in the unfamiliar and unknown?" Nevertheless, the portrayal of Psyche in this story as so unimaginably beautiful that people pay homage to her instead of the goddess of love and beauty highlights the importance Romans place upon physical Beauty.