Ovid's Metamorphoses Book X

ORPHEUS & EURYDICE:    A man wishes to get his wife from the Underworld but looks back too soon and loses her forever.

CYPARISSUS:     A young boy accidentally kills his beloved stag and wished eternal mourning as a tree.
ORPHEUS' PROLOGUE:      Stricken with grief the musician begins his a song in a meadow.
GANYMEDE:     Jove now rapes (kidnaps) a boy who prepares Jove's nectar.
HYACINTHUS:      Apollo's love for a boy is the destruction and H's blood turns to a flower.
THE CERASTES:      Inhabitants that used to sacrifice strangers are turned into savage bulls.
THE PROPOETIDES:      The girl inhabitants were cursed to prostitute their grace and then turn to stone.
PYGMALIOM:     A man despises women so much that he makes his own out of ivory and falls in love with her.

MYRRHA & CINYRAS:     A daughter seduces her own father and turns into a tree, pregnant with his seed.
THE BIRTH OF ADONIS:      The beautiful babe is born of a tree full of disgrace.
VENUS & ADONIS:      The goddess warns her lover to not hung courageous beasts.
ATALANTA & HIPPOMENES:       The race for either a wife or death ends in good spirits with the help of three golden apples, but he forgets to be thankful and both are turned to lions.

THE FATE OF ADONIS:     The boy fails to heed the warning and hunts a boar who sinks him in the groin and as he dies Venus turns his blood to the floor anemone.