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

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Pyramus Thisbe

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

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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

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Orpheus Eurydice

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

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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

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Orpheus Eurydice

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

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Ceyx Alcyone

• Ceyx king in Thessaly
• Alcyone his wife

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Ceyx Alcyone

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

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Ceyx Alcyone

• Alcyones virtue faithful love
• Reward they
• were turned into
• seabirds

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Pygmalion Galatea

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

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Pygmalion Galatea

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

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Baucis Philemon

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

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Baucis Philemon

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

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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