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Title: Eight Brief Tales of Lovers


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Chapter 6
  • Eight Brief Tales of Lovers

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Pyramus Thisbe
  • Romeo Juliet of Greek Mythology
  • Forbidden to see each other
  • Pyramus secretly arranges for Thisbe to meet him
    _at_ tomb under mulberry tree w/white berries

3
Pyramus Thisbe
  • Thisbe arrives 1st
  • Sees lioness w/ bloody jaws
  • Flees, dropping cloak
  • Lioness finds cloak, shreds it, leaves blood

4
Pyramus Thisbe
  • Pyramus arrives
  • Finds cloak, assumes Thisbe died
  • Killed himself w/ sword
  • Blood from his wound covered white berries
  • Thisbe finds him kills herself
  • Gods left mulberries red

5
Orpheus Eurydice
  • Orpheus musician, saved Jason Argonauts from
    Sirens w/ his music
  • Son of Muse Thracian prince

6
Orpheus Eurydice
  • After wedding to Eurydice, she was stung by viper
    in the meadow w/ her bridesmaids died
  • Orpheus went to Underworld sang for Hades to
    get wife back
  • Hades said could have wife, but couldnt look
    back _at_ her until they got out of Hades

7
Orpheus Eurydice
  • Orpheus looked back she disappeared back to
    Underworld
  • Lesson one must obey the gods

8
Ceyx Alcyone
  • Ceyx king in Thessaly
  • Alcyone his wife

9
Ceyx Alcyone
  • Ceyx goes to sea
  • Alcyone doesnt want him to go
  • Ceyx caught in storm, he died

10
Ceyx Alcyone
  • Alcyones virtue faithful love
  • Reward they
  • were turned into
  • seabirds

11
Pygmalion Galatea
  • Pygmalion talented sculptor woman-hater
  • Virtue creative genius
  • Made amazing statue of woman fell in love with
    it

12
Pygmalion Galatea
  • He asked Venus that he find woman like the statue
  • Venus took pity made it a woman Galatea

13
Baucis Philemon
  • Baucis Philemon poor people
  • Jupiter Mercury looked for hospitality from
    people but none kind except poor couple

14
Baucis Philemon
  • Reward turned them into unusual tree that
    sprouted both linden and oak from same trunk

15
Endymion
  • Shepherd
  • Known for great beauty
  • Selene, goddess of the moon, fell in love w/him
  • Put him in eternal sleep
  • She could kiss him when she wanted

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Daphne
  • Huntress, scorned marriage
  • Daughter of river god Peneus
  • Apollo pursued her, she cried for father to help
    her
  • Father turned her into laurel tree
  • Her leaves would wreathe victors at his games so
    they would be joined

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Alpheus Arethusa
  • Arethusa huntress, would have nothing to do
    w/men
  • While bathing, Alpheus (river god) stirred
    beneath her
  • She left river, he pursued
  • Arethusa called for Artemis to help

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Alpheus Arethusa
  • Artemis changed her into underground spring from
    Greece to Sicily
  • Arethusa came above ground in Ortygia, Sicily,
    that ground is sacred to Artemis
  • Alpheus transformed into river, following
    Arethusa his water now mingles w/hers
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