Hmm...I see Cupid and Psyche had a "retroactive marriage." That is to say, they were legally married after Cupid "made Psyche his wife" in their "conjugal embraces."
I find it curious that the Romans and the Hebrews had the same practice. In Deuteronomy or thereabouts, a woman who wasn't engaged to be married had to marry a man who had sex with her before marriage (or raped her); they were never allowed to divorce. (If a woman who was engaged cheated on her betrothed, she was stoned.) I just find it interesting that these two cultures had similar practices (even if death wasn't an issue for Cupid and Psyche). Is it just because they were in roughly the same region? Could the Hebrews have shared this with the Turks to the north (or Hittites in those days) and the practice got brought over from Troy to Latium? Food for thought.
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