I. Pyramus and Thisbe A. Parents forbade them to marry B. Lived in side by side homes, next to each other 1. Whispered through a crack in a wall the houses shared. C. Decided they would flee to freedom together 1. The plan a. meet at the Tomb of Ninus 2. Thisbe got there first and waited a. A lioness was there and had made a kill b. Thisbe fled and dropped her cloak. Lioness took it and …showed first 75 words of 673 total…

…showed last 75 words of 673 total…Could feel something in the depths b. Fled for the spring but a voice stopped her from running any further c. Alpheus, god of the river, was following her because he loved her d. Had her goddess, Artemis, change her into a spring of water and cleft the earth so a temple was made from Greece to Sicily. Swam down to the depths of the ocean. e. Could not escape Alpheus, he followed her down