Pyramus and Thisbe

This last week I discovered a new thing. We were in Latin class, and we were reading the story of Pyramus and Thisbe. When we finished reading it, we all thought it was a smiliar version of Romeo and Juliet, and we asked to the teacher if Shakesperare based his story in Pyramus and Thisbe and she said yes!

I bet 85% of the population don't know about who is Ovid. Truly, I didn't know who he is until few days ago. He is the author of Pyramus and Thisbe.


Pyramus and Thisbe is about two neighbours whose their families hate each others. The only son of one of the families and the only daughter of the other one knew each other since they were little but they hadn't talked before.
One day they saw a crack in the wall. They started talking between this crack and finally they decided to meet at night near a source.
Thisbe arrived first, but while she was waiting for Pyramus, a lion which had just killed and ate an animal and was with all her mouth with blood appeared. Thisbe was freaked out and she run away until the lion left. But while she was running, her veil dropped and the lion played with it and left it all with blood.

Then Pyramus arrived, and didn't saw Thisbe but the bloody veil. He thought she was death, so he took his dagger and killed himself. His blood made the blackberries became red when before this, all the blackberries were white.
But Thisbe was still there, hiden behind a rock. Then, she decided to go out and see if Pyramus was alive. But when she arrived there, she saw Pyramus death. She saw him with the dagger in his hand. Also she saw how the blackberries were now red because of the blood and said that since that moment, all the blackberries would be red. Then, she took Pyramus' dagger and killed herself by his side. They were all death.

Finally, the two families decided to bury the bodies together.



Now you can see how smiliar Romeo and Juliet's story and Pyramus and Thisbe's story are.
Everybody know about Romeo and Juliet and a little number of the population know about Pyramus and Thisbe.


I liked so much to know the first version of the idea of Romeo and Juliet, now I just hope there's not an older version of Pyramus and Thisbe !!!