Packet 10: Tossup 1

Description acceptable. Pausanias rationalized this myth’s “utter stupidity” by claiming that one of its characters was simply mourning his dead sister. Half of this composite myth originates from the Homeric Hymn to Pan’s account of this myth’s main female character, which Longus’s Daphnis repeats to Chloe in return for ten kisses. (-5[1])Ovid assembled this composite myth and placed it in Book 3 after the transformation of Tiresias, who in his first famous prophecy foretells (15[1])it to the nymph (*) Liriope. (10[2])Juno curses one of this myth’s central characters for (10[1])telling stories to delay her during Jupiter’s liaisons. (10[2])In this (10[1])myth, an unrequited lover (10[1])repeats (-5[1])the other’s last (10[1])words, (10[2])“farewell,” (10[3])as he pines (10[1])away, (10[1])leaving (10[1])only (10[1])a yellow flower. (10[5])For (10[1])10 points, what myth (-5[1])relates a mute nymph’s love for (10[1])a beautiful (10[1])hunter obsessed with his own reflection? ■END■ (10[4])

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