PYRAMUS & THISBE: The original Romeo and Juliet and origin of the mulberry bush's color.
MARS, VENUS, VULCAN, THE SUN: Apollo witnesses an affair and tells Vulcan, who traps the lovers in their predicament as the other Gods gaze on in amusement.
LEUCOTHOE & CLYTIE: A sister betrays the other and slowly withers away into the ground.
SALMACIS & HERMAPHRODITUS: A good looking boy gets ambushed by a nymph who pleads to never be separated from him.
THE DAUGHTERS OF MINYAS: Smoke and fire interrupt the weaving story-time and each girl becomes a bat in the darkness.
ATHAMAS & INO: Juno gets a Furie to poison the happy couple to as destroy them but Venus takes pity and turns mother and child into sea-deities.
CADMUS & HARMONY: Cadmus finally takes his serpent shape and his wife changes with him.
ACRISIUS: Denies that Bacchus and Perseus are of Olympian lines but wakes up and realizes the truth as Perseus spills drops of Medusa's blood to form snakes in Libya.
PERSEUS & ATLAS: Atlas refuses to give Perseus rest so Perseus holds up Medusa's head and turns Atlas into the earth.
PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA: Perseus saves Andromeda from her death at sea and Medusa's blood forms coral.PERSEUS & MEDUSA: The son of Jove cuts off the head of the poor girl (whose hair was changed to snakes because she was raped in Minerva's sanctuary) and gains his winged horse.
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