Ancient myth and modern culture

Pyramus and Thisbe,

a love story without an happy ending

Ovid’s myth

Pyramus and Tisbe grew up together. (from Pollon)

Waterhouse, Thysbe

Thisbe is talking to Pyramus thoughta break in the wall because she couldn’t meet him

Hans Baldung Grien’s Pyramus and Thisbe

Gregorio Pagani’s Pyramus and Thisbe

Pyramus and Thysbe,pompei casa di octavio:Pyramus seems killed by a lioness but it is not true.

The tragic end

The myth in the literatureItalian:• 12th century - Tristano e Isotta• 14th century - Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris• 15th century - Masuccio Salernitano’s Il Novellino (Mariotto e

Ganozza) 

English:• 16th century - Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer

Night’s Dream 

Dutch:• There are a lot of rewritings of the story, like from Dirk Potter and

Charivarius.

Nothing else matters

“Trust I seek and I find in youEvery day for us something newOpen mind for a different viewAnd nothing else matters Never care for what they sayNever care for games they playNever care for what they doNever care for what they knowAnd I know”

Metallica

Tristan/Tristano and Isolde/Isotta

-the two lovers can only be together by death

-no official author

-the story was very influential in the Middle Ages

A sad love story in the Chinese culture

- Butterfly lovers

- A famous Chinese legend

- Set in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

In conclusion we have learnt that myths can deal with topics that are always actual, for instance, love. <3

By Nicola, Midas, Casper, Leon, Riccardo, Michele