Echo
- Narcissus - was desired by many young girls but he had too much pride so none of them affected him. Narcissism*?
- Juno made Echo's voice to repeat the last words many times
- Echo loves Narcissus, only repeated what he said last
- Narcissus runs from her and Echo retreats, hurt, and sad
- Hides in woods, only heard not seen
- Sees his reflection in water and automatically falls in love with himself
- Obsessed with himself
- Dies, becomes a flower ("white petals surrounding a yellow heart").
- Pyramus and Thisbe live right by each other
- Babylon
- A sort of forbidden love between the two
- A wall separated them
- *Romeo and Juliet*
- Pyramus thought Thisbe was eaten by a lion and killed himself with his sword
- Thisbe sees him and then kills herself with the same sword
- Vulcan and Venus
- Venus and Mars caught in the "husbands craft"
- Medusa - the blood drops from her head dropped and the earth turned them into deadly serpents
- Strength of Atlas
- Atlas turned into stone by Perseus and Medusa's head
- winged sandals
- Beast
- Perseus defeats the beast and takes Andromeda as his wife.
- Ethiopian princes
- feast and celebration
- The story of Medusa* "once was most beautiful..of all her beauties none was more admired than her hair..."
- Her hair was chained into foul snakes - Neptune violated Medusa
- "to terrify her enemies"
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| "The snake head of Medusa on Athena's aegis" Source: Mythfolklore Blog |
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