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    Flower Love Stories

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    The document summarizes several Greek myths involving flowers, including Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection and turned into a narcissus flower, Hyacinth whose blood turned into the hyacinth flower after he was accidentally killed by Apollo, and Adonis who was killed by a boar with his blood turning into red anemones. It also briefly describes myths involving Pyramus and Thisbe whose love is represented by red mulberries, Orpheus and Eurydice whose love could not overcome the underworld, and Pygmalion who fell in love with his sculpture Galatea which was brought to life.

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    The document summarizes several Greek myths involving flowers, including Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection and turned into a narcissus flower, Hyacinth whose blood turned into the hyacinth flower after he was accidentally killed by Apollo, and Adonis who was killed by a boar with his blood turning into red anemones. It also briefly describes myths involving Pyramus and Thisbe whose love is represented by red mulberries, Orpheus and Eurydice whose love could not overcome the underworld, and Pygmalion who fell in love with his sculpture Galatea which was brought to life.

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    The document summarizes several Greek myths involving flowers, including Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection and turned into a narcissus flower, Hyacinth whose blood turned into the hyacinth flower after he was accidentally killed by Apollo, and Adonis who was killed by a boar with his blood turning into red anemones. It also briefly describes myths involving Pyramus and Thisbe whose love is represented by red mulberries, Orpheus and Eurydice whose love could not overcome the underworld, and Pygmalion who fell in love with his sculpture Galatea which was brought to life.

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    Flower Love Stories

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    The document summarizes several Greek myths involving flowers, including Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection and turned into a narcissus flower, Hyacinth whose blood turned into the hyacinth flower after he was accidentally killed by Apollo, and Adonis who was killed by a boar with his blood turning into red anemones. It also briefly describes myths involving Pyramus and Thisbe whose love is represented by red mulberries, Orpheus and Eurydice whose love could not overcome the underworld, and Pygmalion who fell in love with his sculpture Galatea which was brought to life.

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    THE FLOWER MYTHS

    Narcissus
    Hyacinth
    Adonis
    NARCISSUS
    A handsome young man named Narcissus
    He would ignore the advances of beautiful maidens
    Even the fair nymph Echo, who was punished by Hera
    never to speak again but to repeat what was said to her,
    could not gain his love; hid herself into a cave out of
    shame; still lives in enclosed places; so weakened that
    only her voice remained
    Narcissus was doomed to love himself after seeing his
    own reflection in water
    He could never reach himself; died looking at himself; a
    flower bloomed at the side of the pool, Narcissus
    HYACINTH
    Hyacinthus was the dearest companion of
    Apollo
    During a discus-throwing contest Apollo
    accidentaly struck the boy in the forehead
    The youth died immediately
    Where his blood fell there bloomed a wondrous
    flower, to be called Hyacinth
    Apollos sorrow was inscribed on the petals with
    the two letters of the Greek word for Alas!
    ADONIS
    Even as a baby Adonis was loved by Aphrodite
    Aphrodite took him to Persephone to take charge
    Persephone loved him too, did not want to give him
    back; Zeus decided that he should spend autumn and
    winter with Persephone and the spring and summer with
    Aphrodite
    They liked to play and chase each other in the woods
    One day Adonis wounded a wild boar; boar killed him
    Where his blood fell there bloomed the red anemone
    LOVE STORIES

    Pyramus and Thisbe


    Orpheus and Eurydice
    Pygmalion and Galatea
    Daphne
    Endymion
    PYRAMUS & THISBE
    Pyramus (young boy) and Thisbe (lovely maiden) lived in
    Babylon in two houses with a common wall
    Lovers would talk through a hole in tha wall, yet no touch and
    kiss possible
    Finally they decided to slip away to meet under the white
    mulberry tree
    Thisbe went first, dropped her cloak while escaping from a
    lioness
    Pyramus saw the bloodstained cloak and thought Thisbe was
    dead, stabbed himself; his blood dyed the mulberries into red
    Thisbe came back, understood what happened and killed
    herself
    Their love is commemorated in the red mulberry tree
    ORPHEUS & EURYDICE
    Son of one of the Muses and a Thracian prince
    Mother gave him the gift of music which fostered in Thrace
    When he played rocks moved, animals followed
    He married Eurydice, she died shortly after
    Orpheus decided to go to Hades and bring her back
    His song touched Hadess heart and gave Eurydice back, but
    upon one condition: he would not look back to be sure that
    she followed
    Just as he was out he turned back, Eurydice slipped back
    into darkness forever
    Orpheus wandered aimlessly; was killed by bandits; where
    he is buried the nightingales sing sweetly
    PYGMALION & GALATEA
    Pygmalion, a young sculptor of Cyprus, hated
    women for their deficiencies, swore never to
    marry
    Yet he made the statue of a perfect woman and
    fell deeply in love with what he made
    He did everything to have a response from the
    statue, but the statue was a lifeless thing
    Venus (Aphrodite) accepted his prayers and
    gave life to the statue, Pygmalion named her
    Galatea and married her
    DAPHNE
    Daughter of the river-god Peneus
    She was a beautiful girl who rejected all who
    wooed her, she liked hunting in the woods
    Apollo saw her in the woods; fell in love and
    began to pursue her
    While running in fear she saw her fathers river
    and asked for help
    Suddenly she was changed into the laurel tree
    Apollo made her his tree and her leaves the
    symbol of victory
    ENDYMION

    He was a young and handsome shepherd


    The Moon-goddess Selene loved him
    Selene made him immortal and cast a magic on
    him so that he would sleep forever while she
    caressed and kissed him as she pleased

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