Pygmalion, a famous sculptor, hated women. However, he created his ultimate work which was the statue of a beautiful woman. Pygmalion then fell in love with the statue and gave it gifts of his love. Pygmalion sacrificed a bull to Aphrodite and asked her to turn the statue into a real girl. Aphrodite brought the statue to life for him in pity and named her Galatea. The pair was married and lived happily ever after!

Hana Pastuhova  Grace Mohr

The story is about two lovers named Pyramus and Thisbe. They were from rival families and they weren't allowed to marry. They were able to communicate through a wall that was between their houses. They talked through a crack. One day they agreed to meet up under a mulberry tree. Thisbe had arrived first and saw a lion covered in blood. She quickly ran away, leaving her veil behind. Then Pyramus arrives and sees the lion covered in blood and her now bloody veil. Instantly, he assumes that the lion ate her. Thinking that she died, Pyramus committed suicide by stabbing himself with a sword. His blood then splashed onto the leaves of the mulberry tree. Thisbe returns and sees her love dead. Then she decides to take his sword and kill herself too. In honour of their love, the leaves of the mulberry turned from white to black. 

When Atlanta was born she was thrown away      by her father because she was a woman. She was taken in by the animals in the forest and grew up to be a great hunter and athlete. When her father heard of her accomplishments he took her back and tried to fulfill his fatherly duties by finding her a husband. However, Atlanta didn’t want a husband so they came to the agreement that if any men challenged her to a race and won they could marry her, but if they lost they would die. So many men raced Atlanta and lost until Hippomenes saw her and immediately fell in love. He knew he couldn't beat her in a race so he asked for help from the goddess of love, Aphrodite. She gave him three golden apples to distract Atlanta in the race but he would have to pay tribute to her later in life. So when the race began and Atlanta was winning he threw the apple in front of her and she slowed down to pick it up. When she slowed down he surged forward. He did this two more times and was able to win the race. They got married and were living happily, but he forgot to pay tribute to Aphrodite. So one day when they were visiting the temple of Cybele, they desecrated the temple and offended Cybele and he turned them into lions, but little did they know that Aphrodite intervened and made them both feel immense lust for each other knowing that he would be offended and would turn them into lions. The Greeks believed that lions would always distrust each other and never be happy.

By Kate Williams

On a slow day for the Gods, Jupiter made a decision to travel to Earth in order to test mortals. Taking with him his son and messenger, Mercury, the two Gods landed in a small village on Earth. They disguised themselves as beggars in order to test the mortals kindness and generosity. Walking to one house, they knocked. The people in that house turned them away. So this process continued until the Gods reached a shabby and poor looking cottage. Outside was a single goose. When the Gods knocked, already disappointed in humanity, a poor and elderly couple answered. The couple was Bacchus and Philemon, and they were poor, but devoted to kindness and hospitality. Baucis sat the Gods down and offered them the little food they had and their small amount of wine. Philemon went to retrieve the goose in order to prepare a meal for what appeared to be two weary and haggard travelers. Before the couple slew the goose the Gods revealed their true nature and asked what the couple would wish for. The couple knelt and told the Gods that they wished for nothing but to be able to die together, as they were frightened of the idea of one dying and leaving the other alone. Jupiter and Mercury granted this wish, transforming their cottage into a temple while they were at it. To punish the richer, yet crueler, neighbors for their immoral actions, the Gods levied a flood down and drowned the country. Baucis and Philemon survived in their temple and lived for many years there as the Priest and Priestess before dying at the same moment whilst on a walk. To give them eternity, Jupiter transformed them into trees at the moment of death, allowing their branches to tangle.