Archive for the ‘Legendary Love’ Category
Not for Pyramus and Thisbe though. They certainly needed more.
Pyramus and Thisbe are young lovers in a Babylonian story retold by Ovid in the Metamorphoses. The lovers, who lived next door to each other, were forbidden by their parents to see or speak to each other. But the two communicated through a hole in the wall between their houses.
They agreed to meet at a well-known place, the Tomb of Ninus, under a tall mulberry tree full of white berries, near a cool spring.
Tragedy ensues. But such is the way of Love Stories that it’s the sad ones we remember.
