Transformation
Sunflower
Clytie
Leucothoe
Princess of Babylon, lover of the Sun
Why did Orchamus bury his daughter alive?
He punished Leucothoe for being with Helios.
Why did Juno punish Ino
She took care of Bacchus
I am the one
who measures the long year, who views all things,
and thanks to whom the earth sees anything.
I am the eye of the world. Believe this—
I find you pleasing.’
Helios speaks to Leucothoe
Shower of gold
Jupiter to be with Danae
Salmacis
Nymph, being in love with Hermaphroditus
They talked to each other through a crack in the wall.
Pyramis and Thisbe
Why Medusa was transformed into a monster?
She was raped in the temple of Athena/ Minerva by Poseidon/ Neptune and a goddess punished her
Envious wall, why be an obstacle
to lovers? Would it be so difficult
to let us completely join our bodies?
Or if that is too much, you might at least
open up so we can kiss each other.
Pyramis and Thisbe
Serpent
Cadmus and Harmonia
Learchus
a son of Athamas, killed by him
Why did Vulcan forge an invisible net?
To trap Mars and Venus in the bed
Why was Ixion Punished?
He dared to seduce Hera/Juno
“O wife, my most unhappy wife,
come here while something of me still remains.
Touch me. Take my hand while it is a hand,
before the snake has taken all of me.”
Cadmus speaks to Harmonia
Mountain
Atlas
Orchamus
King of Persia
The color of this fruit turned from white to red?
Mulberry was colored by a blood of Pyramis and Thisbe
How did Venus revenge Helios/Sun?
She made him fall in love with Leucothoe
These are not the chains you should be wearing,
but rather those which link up those in love.
Tell me your name and what your land is called—
I’d like to know—and why you are in chains.
Perseus speaks to Andromeda
Birds
Attendants of Ino
Tisiphone
One of the Furies
Why and how was Sisyphus punished?
King of Corinth, Sisyphus was punished by the Greek gods with eternal, futile labor—pushing a boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down—due to his extreme hubris (arrogance), trickery, and defiance of divine authority, most notably by chaining Death itself.
Why Andromeda was chained to the rock to be eaten by a sea monster?
Her mother, Queen Cassiopeia, boasted that she or Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereids (sea nymphs), causing the sea god's, Neptune's rage
Father and mother, grant your son this gift—
he carries both your names. Whoever comes
to this pool as a man, let him leave here
half a man, and, once these waters touch him,
let him become effeminate.’
Salmacis speaks to Venus and Mars about Hermaphroditus