Cupid makes Pluto fall in love with Ceres’ young daughter Proserpine. When the king of Hades carries her off with him, there are consequences for the whole world.
Metamorphoses
The wedding of Perseus to Andromeda turns into a pitched battle, with many turned to stone by Medusa’s face. Then 9 daughters challenge the Muses to a contest.
Perseus describes in his wedding speech how he beheaded Medusa, and how she came to have snakes in her hair.
First Perseus turns Atlas to stone for his failure to offer him hospitality. He then flies on to rescue the beautiful Andromeda, who’s going to be the next meal for a sea-monster.
Juno engages the Furies to drive Cadmus’ daughter Ino and her husband mad. With his dynasty ended, Cadmus and his wife end up as snakes.
When the nymph Salmacis falls in passionate love with the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, he resists, and they are joined together in single body.
The stories of Venus and Mars, caught in bed together by her husband Vulcan, and the unrequited loves of Leucothoë and Clytie for the Sun.
The earliest known story in the Western canon to end with the suicide of frustrated lovers, it was the precursor to Romeo and Juliet, and extensively depicted.
Pentheus pours scorn on the cult of the new god Bacchus, son of Semele. When interrupts revels, he is torn apart by his own mother and aunts, as foretold by Tiresias.
Linked stories of Tiresias, the trans-gender soothsayer, Narcissus who fell in love with himself, and Echo who could only repeat what others said.
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