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Tales of Lovers. Pyramus and Thisbe. Orpheus and Eurydice. Ceyx and Alcyone. Pygmalion and Galatea. Baucis and Philemon. Endymion. Daphne. Alpheus and Arethusa. Pyramus and Thisbe. Love can’t be forbidden. Love transcends life. Immortality. Impulsivity of youth. Romeo and Juliet.
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Tales of Lovers • Pyramus and Thisbe • Orpheus and Eurydice • Ceyx and Alcyone • Pygmalion and Galatea • Baucis and Philemon • Endymion • Daphne • Alpheus and Arethusa
Pyramus and Thisbe • Love can’t be forbidden • Love transcends life • Immortality • Impulsivity of youth • Romeo and Juliet
Orpheus and Eurydice • After the gods, greatest musician -- Lyre • Faith/trust –don’t look back • Nothing could resist his playing – living or nonliving • Destined to live alone with music until his destruction
Ceyx and Alcyone • Separation by duty • Death of departed, followed by longing • Immortality in the form of birds • 7 days of calm during nesting – Halcyon days
Pygmalion and Galatea • Falls in love with his creation • “Shaping” in relationships? • Pygmalion effect – self-fulfilling prophecy
Baucis and Philemon • Piety • Fidelity to gods and each other • Rewarded for hospitality, fidelity, and piety by being changed into two trees growing as one/ immortality
Endymion • Young shepherd of surpassing beauty who only sleeps on a mountainside • Selene, the moon, fell in love with him • Selene’s passion brings her her greatest pain--many sighs
Daphne • Young love and marriage hating huntress • Apollo fell in love with her—she fled • She spurned his love/pursuit • Changed into a Laurel tree—its leaves would grace the victor’s brow • Unrequited love
Alpheus and Arethusa • Again pursuit—Arethusa wants freedom • Turned into a stream by Artemis • Alpheus followed her/their waters mingle