Thisbe

Family: mortals · Role: lover of Pyramus · First appears: Fable 38

Life events

Pyramus and Thisbe’s fathers forbid their marriage despite their mutual love.(Fable38 · 📍 Babylon)
- With: Pyramus
- “They would have united themselves, too, by the tie of marriage, but their fathers forbade it.”
Pyramus and Thisbe arrange to evade their keepers and meet at Ninus’s tomb.(Fable38 · 📍 Babylon)
- With: Pyramus
- “they determine, in the silent night, to try to deceive their keepers, and to steal out of doors”
Thisbe flees a lioness and drops her veil beneath the agreed tree.(Fable38 · 📍 the tomb of Ninus)
- “The Babylonian Thisbe sees her at a distance, by the rays of the moon, and with a trembling foot she flies to a dark cave; and, while she flies, her veil falling from her back, she leaves it behind.”
Thisbe discovers Pyramus dead and kills herself with the same sword.(Fable38 · 📍 the tomb of Ninus)
- With: Pyramus
- “I will follow thee in thy death, and I shall be called the most unhappy cause and companion of thy fate”
Pyramus and Thisbe’s remains are placed together in one urn after their deaths.(Fable38 · 📍 the tomb of Ninus)
- With: Pyramus
- “and what was left of them, from the funeral pile, reposed in the same urn.”
The mulberry tree’s fruit turns black from the lovers’ blood as a lasting memorial.(Fable38 · 📍 the tomb of Ninus)
- With: Pyramus
- “For the color of the fruit, when it has fully ripened, is black”

courtship with Pyramus “Pyramus and Thisbe, the one the most beauteous of youths,[18] the other preferred before {all} the damsels that the East contained, lived in adjoining houses;”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.