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9 Cards in this Set
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Cupid and Psyche |
Pretty girl Venus doesn't like; Cupid falls in love, marries her; doesn't let her see him; she sees him and he flies away; she asks Venus for help; Venus makes her do three impossible tasks; Cupid finds her again; Jupiter gives her immortality and Venus is cool with it. |
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Pyramus and Thisbe |
Original version of Romeo and Juliet; their blood explains why mulberries are red. |
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Orpheus and Euridice |
Married, but Euridice died; Orpheus is a master musician; decides to charm Hades into letting him take her back; Hades agrees, but Orpheus can't look back at her until they're out; he looks back before they're out, and she's taken back under. |
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Ceyx and Alcyone |
Royal married couple; Ceyx goes on a sea voyage and dies; Morpheus, son of Sleep, goes to hopeful Alcyone to tell her the news; she goes to the waters and sees Ceyx's body; runs towards it, and the both are become birds; seven days of calm are called Alcyone/Halcyone days. |
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Pygmalion and Galatea |
Woman-hating sculptor; sculpts a beautiful woman and falls in love with it; Venus thinks its sweet, so she brings it to life for him; he names her Galatea and Venus's favorite city is named after their son, Paphos. |
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Baucis and Philemon |
Jupiter and Mercury want to see how hospitality is in Phrysia; after much rejection, this poor, old couple were the only to admit them in; despite not having much, they do their best to entertain; they realize their guests are higher than mortal and try (and fail) to catch a goose; Jup and Merc are entertained and like them enough to bless them with a lake and giant house; they ask to be their priests and to die together; when they die, they become an oak and linden tree from one trunk. |
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Endymion and Selene |
Good-looking dude; Selene, the moon, lulls him into perpetual sleep so she can always find and kiss him at night. |
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Apollo and Daphne |
Daphne is like Diana; doesn't want love, only wants to hunt; Apollo sees her and falls in love; he chases her until he catches her; she becomes a laurel tree, and Apollo wears her on his brow when he has victory. |
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Alpheus and Arethusa |
Arethusa- pretty girl taking a bath; Alpheus, a river-god, sees her and falls in love; he chases her; Arethusa calls to Artemis, who changes her into a spring; Alpheus changes himself into a river and mingles with her water; throwing something into one of their sacred waters will make it appear in the other's; pretty flowers grow around them. |
