STORY OF LOVE AND ADVENTUREPyramus and Thisbe & Orpheus and Eurydice

PYRAMUS AND THISBE

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.

THE MULBERRY TREE

THE LIONESS

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

LOVE HURTS

Pyramus Thisbe

THE BLOOD RED BERRIESThe blood from Pyramus and Thisbes’ death turned the white berries on the tree red.

ORPHEUS & EURYDICEThe tragic story of ones wedding.

THE WEDDING CEREMONY

Orpheus and Eurydice got married in a meadow.

THE VIPER

Eurydice got bit by a viper after the wedding

It killed her and she went to the under world.

ORPHEUS’ JOURNEY TO THE UNDERWORLD

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.

ORPHEUS’ DEATH

Orpheus was killed by a band of Maenads.

They through his head into the river.

The tore him apart.

THE NIGHTENGALES SING THE SWEETEST TUNE AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT OLYMPUS

WHERE HIS TOMB AND LYRE ARE

BY:MEGAN SPINNEY, MORGAN AMES, FELICIA FRANCHITTO, BAILEY COLLINS AND MEGHAN DELANEY