Ovid's stories

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Midas Part 1
King Midas makes a wish everything he touches turns to gold.
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Midas Part 2
Midas gets punished because two gods are having a panpipe battle and Midas chooses the less power one and the more powerful god gives him the ears of an donkey.
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Baucis and Philemon
This story is about Zeus and hermes and they travel to a horrible town, they try and stay somewhere but everyone says no apart from Baucis and Philemon.At the end the gods reveal their true from and destroys the whole town.They are turned into trees.
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Erysichthon
He cuts down a gods tree and the god of hunger makes him starve and he ends up eating himself.
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Actaeon
Actaeon is a hunter, he goes for a drink in a pool in the forest and a god is bathing there he see her and she she's him and she then turns him into a stagg, in the end he gets hunted and dies for his dogs catching him, looking like a stagg.
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Echo and Narcissus
This is the story of a man who is the so beautiful all the girls want to be with him but never approach him. Echo is a nimph and see annoys Hera and she makes it so that Echo can't speak for herself , she trys to get Narcissus but he does not like...
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Echo and Narcissus contin.
her, he then falls in love with himself and ends up dying of starvation because he does not want to leave his reflection. He is then turned into a flower leaning over the pool just like he did.
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Arachne
Arachne has a looming battle with Athene and Athene loses the competition, being a sore loser Athene turns Arachne into a spider forever.
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Card 2

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Midas Part 2

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Midas gets punished because two gods are having a panpipe battle and Midas chooses the less power one and the more powerful god gives him the ears of an donkey.

Card 3

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Baucis and Philemon

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Card 4

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Erysichthon

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

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Actaeon

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