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Classical Mythology. a nymph who, when pursued by Apollo, was saved by being changed into a laurel tree.

daphne

a youth who fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool and wasted away from unsatisfied desire,whereupon he was transformed into the flower.

narcissus

Pandora gave in to her curiosity and opened the box,allowing the evils to escape, thereby frustrating the efforts of Prometheus. In some versions, the box contained blessings, all of which escaped but hope.

pandora

giant hunter who pursued the Pleiades, was eventually slain by Artemis, and was then placed in the sky as a constellation.

orion

two young lovers of Babylon who held conversations clandestinely, and in defiance of their parents, through a crack in a wall. On believing Thisbe dead, Pyramus killed himself. When Thisbe discovered his body she committed suicide.

pyramus and thisbe

Phrygian king, son of Gordius, who was given by Dionysus the power of turning whatever he touched into gold.

midas

the ancient Greek and Roman god of light, healing, music, poetry,prophecy, and manly beauty; the son of Leto and brother of Artemis

apollo

naked, infant boy with a bow and arrows.

cupid

Goddess of arts, identified with the Greek goddess Athena.

minerva

prophesied at his birth, he unwittingly killed his father and married his mother and, in penance, blinded himself and went into exile.

oedipus

an ancient Roman deity, virgin goddess of the moon and of hunting, and protector of women,

diana

goddess of gardens and spring, identified by the Romans with Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty.

venus

personification of the soul, which in the form of a beautiful girl was loved by Eros.

psyche