Deucalion & Pyrrha
Repopulated the earth by throwing stones behind their backs; she was daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora
Baucis & Philemon
Showed hospitality to disguised gods & became joined trees outside a small temple that was once their house
Aeneas & Dido
Killed herself on a funeral pyre cursing the name of this hero of the Latin race
Uranus & Gaea
Father Heaven and Mother Earth; their kids were Titans
Zeus & Io
This girl inspired the majestic Olympian, but he turned her into a cow to avoid detection
Zeus & Europa
Zeus swept this Phoenician off her feet and onto the back of a great bull which took her to the island Crete
Artemis & Orion
Two hunters became lovers, but the maiden goddess was tricked by Apollo into killing Orion
Halcyon & Ceyx
Halcyon (Alcyone) was daughter of Aeolus, king of winds; she married Ceyx; his death at sea drove her to suicide, but metamorphosis turned her into a kingfisher bird
Agamemnon & Cassandra
The general of all the Greek army at Troy took a captive war-bride, a royal named Cassandra whose prophecies were never believed
Pan & Syrinx
She turned into a reed to escape this satyr's advances; the reed became the pipes of Pan
Paris & Helen
After the Judgement of Paris, their love affair began the Trojan War
Pyramus & Thisbe
In ancient Babylon, their blood stained the mulberries red and their love inspired Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Echo & Narcissus
He fell in love with his own reflection; she wasted away to a mere repeating voice
Daphne & Apollo
She turned into a laurel tree escaping this god's advances...He wore a laurel crown on his head- originating the title 'poet laureate'
Atalanta & Hippomenes
He won her love by beating her in a race where he threw Golden Apples on the course
Pygmalion & Galatea
He fell in love with his statue of the ideal woman
Marc Antony & Cleopatra
Together they could not defeat Octavian, & both committed suicide, leaving young Caesarion and other children to an unhappy fate
Orpheus & Eurydice
He looked back at her, so she must go back to the regnum Inferiorum
Cupid & Psyche
Betrayed her invisible god/husband but gained back his love by fetching some of Persephone's beauty, sorting grains, and scooping water with a sieve
Alcestis & Admetus
She chose to go to Hades in place of her husband and was brought back to life by Hercules
Theseus & Ariadne
The Athenian, son of Aegeus, killed the Minotaur and escaped with the ball of thread from the daughter of King Minos; but he sailed away abandoning her
Aphrodite & Adonis
She loved a mortal shepherd and mourned his death when attacked by a wild boar
Caesar & Cornelia Cinnae, Pompeia, Calpurnia
His three Roman wives, but his son Caesarion was with Cleopatra
Aphrodite & Anchises
The goddess of love seduced the mortal Anchises; their son was Aeneas of Troy