Tragedies of Love Ingreek Mythology

Everyone sexual rages a good tragedy. The ones that make you cry and spend a penny the person next to you a capacious hug. Jack and Rose in titanic ninety percent of the pack I know cry every fourth diwork forcesion they watch Titanic. Rhett andler and Scarlett OHara in Gone With The Wind, even Borat and Pamela Anderson in the p conkic film Borat But this paper isnt around tragedies in recent times its about go to bed stories gone pervertin Greek mythology. I cook researched the stories I think were the saddest and most pitiable Apollo and Hyacinthus Apollo, the Greek god of knowledge and the liberal arts had many affairs with both men and women, most of which didnt end so well.He had an affair with Hyacinthus who was a prince of Sparta. Hyacinthus admired and love Apollo so much so that he followed him everywhere. unmatchable afternoon, the lovers persistent to practice dish throwing. Youd think it was a blameless enough game for two people in love to play. Apollo threw the discus and in such excitement to get it, the controvert hit Hyacinthus square on the gaffer instantly sidesplitting him. Apollo later erudite that it was Zephyrus (god of the West wind) who was also deeply in love with him, that manipulated the winds resulting in the change in direction of the discuss and ultimately the killing of Hyacinthus.It is said that the grieving Apollo rancid his love life Hyacinthus into the flower we all know as the Hyacinth. This is a good example of people who lose loved ones and keep mementos of them, keeping them in their memories. Apollo and Clytie This is another story of Apollos many love affairs. I speculation he just liked to sow his seeds wildly. Apollo and Clytie were dispiritedly in love. Obliviously happy. thus Apollo did what he knew how to do best, he left-hand(a) Clytie for another woman princess Leucothea. Feeling robbed, Clytie ousted Leucothea to her return who judged that his daughter be buried alive.Clytie judgme nt she would finally have her Apollo back exactly alas this made him turn outside(a) from her for good. Sad as she was, she sit on a rock for days without food, waiting for her beloved and staring at the sky. Clytie suffered and turned brown and yellow, finally turning into a heliotrope flower (it always turns its power point towards the sky). This is an example of going to extreme lengths for love and yes, it often does not end well. Eos and Tithonus afterward world cursed by Aphrodite to be breakingly in love, goddess of the sun, Eos, fell in love with a Trojan Tithonus.Being so enchanted and taken with him, she kidnapped him and took him to Zeus to bear him for immortality for Tithonus. Zeus did give him the immortality that Eos asked for only if in her haste she didnt ask for eternal youth and health for Tithonus. So yes they were together forever barely Tithonus grew aged(a) and older with each passing day. He eventually lost use of his body but he whimpered every so often. In need of preserving her love for him, she turned him into a cicada. To forever sing a pitiable tone to her. Orpheus and EurydiceOrpheus, son of Muse calliope was married to Eurydice. Once, he sailed with the Argonauts meanwhile, back at home, Aristaeus attempted to seduce Eurydice away from Orpheus. But faithful she was. She fled him and unfortunately, she trod on a snake in the grass which bit her and killed her. When Orpheus returned and found his wife dead, he played a song so mournful and sad that the gods and nymphs told him to go to pit and retrieve her. He went to sin and asked for his Eurydice back. Hades agreed and told him that she would follow him back to acres on the one condition that he not look back.As they approached the gates of the underworld, Orpheus couldnt resist. Is she really following me? he vista I cant tell. He couldnt wait to see her face. He turned around and with that he watched her draw away, slip, away from him forever. This story is indicative of what love can do to people. It makes you break the rules because it hurts so bad to abide by those rules. Narcissus and noise The nymph, Echo, was cursed by Hera to be futile to start conversation and to repeat last words uttered by others.She was hopelessly in love with Narcissus, son of a river god who was incredibly handsome as well as incredibly vain. One day Narcissus went hunting and Echo saw him and followed him. Narcissus thought he heard mortal behind him and asked Whos there? and curt Echo, unable to say anything apart from that, replied Whos there? In a last ditch effort to get Narcissus attention, she showed herself to him but he turned her away and went on with his hunting. Heartbroken Echo went into a cave, sat and sadly faded away into winda voice.Narcissus grew thirsty from his hunting and decided to take a drink in the river. He saw his reflection in the pissing and fell in love with it, never knowing that it was HIS reflection. For fear o f destroying the reflection he didnt drink the water and wasted away of thirst, turning into the narcissus flower. I think this is the surpass story because they both died of unrequited love which to me seems like the worst kind of scenario. Echo never cosmos loved by Narcissus and Narcissus never being loved by his reflection. They both died unsatisfied.