MYTHOLOGY-lovers' stories
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- pyramus and thisbe
- parents forbid to see eachother, they escape and guys thinks girl gets killed by lion so kills himself, his blood is splattered on bushes (mulberry bush)
- daphne and apollo
- guy in love with girl, girl hates love and marriage, he chases girl and she asks father to help her, she is turned into a laurel tree
- pomona and vertumnus
- girl shuts herself off from men, he disguised himself as old women, kisses her and reveals idenitiy, fall in love and 2 gardeners in her orchirds
- cupid and phyche
- spilled oil on her husband to find out who he is, got tested by the mom, hardest was going to underworld where he rescued her
- ceyx and alcyone
- guy lost at sea, someone pretends to be her husband and comes to her, she runs out and seads husband dead, gods have pity and change them into birds
- orpheus and eurydice
- get married on wedding day she gets bitten by snake, guy goes to underworld charms them with his lyre they come back if he doesnt look back
- alpheus and arethusa
- guy chases girl, she is changed to spring of water in grees, and he is a river in italy, they run together
- glacus and scylla
- guy is fisherman, he jumps into sea, water floods him he is half man half fish. he goes to girl to get potion, cerce makes potion to make girl a monster
- atlanta and hippomenes
- girl will marry guy that can beat her in foot race, while racing guy throws golden apples, she stops to pick one up and he wins, they are turned into lions
- pygmalion and galatea
- guy is sculpture, wasnts a women as perfect as statue, statue comes to life and they get married
- endymion and selene
- she is moon goddes, she asks zeus to put him to sleep forever b/c she is in love with him so she can look at him, at night moon comes lulls him asleep
- baucis and philemon
- they are nice to the poor people who are actually mercury and jupiter, grant one wish and they wish to be together, one is linden tree and other oak, grow from same trunk