Tragedies of Love Ingreek Mythology

Everyone jazzs a good tragedy. The ones that nurse you cry and give the person next to you a big hug. son of a bitch and Rose in Titanic ninety percent of the people I know cry every time they watch Titanic. Rhett Butler and Scarlett OHara in Gone With The Wind, even Borat and Pamela Anderson in the movie Borat But this motif isnt more or less tragedies in recent times its about love stories gone wrongin Greek mythology. I nonplus researched the stories I prize were the saddest and most touching Apollo and Hyacinthus Apollo, the Greek god of fellowship and the 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 loved Apollo so much so that he followed him everywhere. One afternoon, the lovers decided to practice disk throwing. Youd think it was a harmless enough game for devil people in love to play. Apollo threw the discus and in such warmth to pop it, the discu ss hit Hyacinthus square on the head nowadays killing him. Apollo later learned 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 fin eithery the killing of Hyacinthus.It is said that the grieving Apollo turned his beloved Hyacinthus into the flower we all know as the Hyacinth. This is a good example of people who subscribe 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 guess he just desire to sow his seeds wildly. Apollo and Clytie were dispiritedly in love. Obliviously happy. Then Apollo did what he knew how to do best, he left Clytie for another woman princess Leucothea. Feeling robbed, Clytie ousted Leucothea to her father who judged that his missy be buried alive.Clytie thought she would finally have her Apollo choke off and alas this made him turn away from her f or good. Sad as she was, she sit down on a rock for days without food, waiting for her beloved and thoroughgoing(a) at the sky. Clytie suffered and turned brown and yellow, eventually turning into a heliotrope flower (it always turns its head 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 After being cursed by Aphrodite to be unfadingly 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 genus Zeus to ask him for immortality for Tithonus. Zeus did give him the immortality that Eos asked for but in her haste she didnt ask for eternal youth and health for Tithonus. So yes they were together forever but Tithonus grew elder and older with each passing day. He eventually lost physical exertion of his body but he whimpered every so often. In charter of preserving her love for him, she turned him into a cicada. To forever sing a pitiful tone to her. Orpheus and EurydiceOrpheus, son of Muse Calliope was married to Eurydice. Once, he sailed with the Argonauts meanwhile, plump for at home, Aristaeus attempted to seduce Eurydice away from Orpheus. But faithful she was. She fled him and unfortunately, she trod on a serpent which bit her and killed her. When Orpheus returned and found his wife dead, he vie a song so mournful and sad that the gods and nymphs told him to go to infernal region and retrieve her. He went to Hades and asked for his Eurydice back. Hades agreed and told him that she would follow him back to earth on the one condition that he not boldness back.As they approached the gates of the underworld, Orpheus couldnt resist. Is she really following me? he thought I cant tell. He couldnt wait to see her face. He turned around and with that he watched her fade away, slip, away from him forever. This story is apocalyptical of what love can do to people. It makes you break the rul es because it hurts so bad to abide by those rules. Narcissus and withdraw The nymph, Echo, was cursed by Hera to be unable to pour down conversation and to repeat last words uttered by others.She was hopelessly in love with Narcissus, son of a river god who was incredibly large-minded as well as incredibly vain. One day Narcissus went capture and Echo saw him and followed him. Narcissus thought he heard someone cigaret him and asked Whos there? and poor 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 nothingnessa voice.Narcissus grew thirsty from his hunting and decided to take a drink in the river. He saw his reflection in the water and fell in love with it, neer knowing that it was HIS reflection. For fear of destroying the reflection he didnt drink the water and wasted away of thirst, turning into the narcissus flower. I think this is the worst story because they both died of unrequited love which to me seems like the worst kind of scenario. Echo never being loved by Narcissus and Narcissus never being loved by his reflection. They both died unsatisfied.