S TORY OF L OVE AND A DVENTURE Pyramus and Thisbe & Orpheus and Eurydice

P YRAMUS AND T HISBE Pyramus and Thisbe were two lovers who were separated by a wall because their parents forbade them to see each other. They were so fed up with not seeing each other that they planned to meet. They wouldn't let the wall come between their love.

They planned to meet under a mulberry tree with white berries. Thisbe started walking to the to tree first, however she dropped her cloak on the ground as she was walking away. A lioness mistook it for a meal and bit it leaving blood stains. T HE M ULBERRY T REE

T HE L IONESS The lioness was unsatisfied finding out that it was only a cloak not a human, so she wandered away. Pyramus began to

L OVE H URTS PyramusThisbe

T HE B LOOD R ED B ERRIES The blood from Pyramus and Thisbes’ death turned the white berries on the tree red.

O RPHEUS & E URYDICE The tragic story of ones wedding.

T HE W EDDING C EREMONY Orpheus and Eurydice got married in a meadow.

T HE V IPER Eurydice got bit by a viper after the wedding It killed her and she went to the under world.

O RPHEUS ’ J OURNEY T O T HE U NDERWORLD Orpheus goes to the underworld to try to get Eurydice back. He plays his lyre to get the gods to give her back to him. He couldn’t look at her until they got out. He looked too soon.

O RPHEUS ’ D EATH Orpheus was killed by a band of Maenads. They through his head into the river. The tore him apart.

T HE N IGHTENGALES SING THE SWEETEST TUNE AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT OLYMPUS WHERE HIS TOMB AND LYRE ARE

BY:M EGAN S PINNEY, M ORGAN A MES, F ELICIA F RANCHITTO, B AILEY C OLLINS AND M EGHAN D ELANEY