Greek Myths

Another myth I recently read is that of Pyramus and Thisbe, the love story about the two best-looking youths of Babylonia. It tells how their love was prohibited, and how when they decided to elope they both suffered tragic deaths in a Romeo and Juliet style. The next myth I read was that of Cephalus and Procris, where again Cephalus was beautiful and was in love with Procris, his wife. Again, one of them (Procris) met a tragic death. The last myth was that of Juno and her Rivals, Io and Callisto. The story related to Io tells of an infidelity that Zeus tried to hide from Hera by disguising the mistress, although his wife was already aware of what was happening. Hera asked for the mistress in disguise as a gift, making her a prisoner, until Zeus could bear it no longer and had to ask Hermes to free her by making her guardian fall asleep. The story involving Callipso tells that Juno turned her, another mistress, into a bear, trying to take her beauty away. What all of these myths have in common, not only between them but with every other myth is the fact that there was some kind of love involved. In these particular cases it was only between lovers, but sometimes the love can be represented by the strong bond between friends or father and son.