Pyramus and Thisbe (Pretty God-Awful)

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Latin Project- Pyramus and Thisbe: Their Last Hour The original story of Pyramus and Thisbe was a poem written by Ovid in his book Metamorphoses. Pyramus and Thisbe is a lot like the story of Romeo and Juliet in that it consists of a story of two passionate or even “star-crossed” young lovers from parents who forbid their love. It is in fact said that Shakespeare based his famous play on Pyramus and Thisbe. Our story takes place in the nation of Babylonia where Pyramus and Thisbe, whom like many other characters in classical literature had qualities beyond normal human standards, theirs was their unmatched beauty and their reputation as the most handsome and most beautiful young man and woman in Babylonia. They quickly fell in deep passionate love but despite the love they shared their parents didn’t approve; They forbade the two to marry or as much as see each other. Their time spent apart only strengthened their love as they looked harder and harder for ways to see each other and communicate until they eventually came up with a solution- an old cracked wall that separated their two houses. After much time spent longing to see each other, they concocted a plan that the two would slip from their houses under the cover of night to the Tomb of Ninus where under a white mulberry tree they would await each other’s company. When the time came to carry through with their plan Thisbe left quickly wearing a veil to hide her face with Pyramus leaving soon after. Thisbe arrived first at their ascribed meeting place under the mulberry tree where she saw a lioness with a mouth still bloody from a recent kill, and quickly fled, carelessly dropping her veil. Pyramus arrived soon after and to his dismay found lion tracks and the veil that Thisbe dropped that was now covered with blood from the lioness. Pyramus, unable to bear the thought of losing Thisbe, took the veil and

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