Round 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. Ovid assembled this composite myth and placed it in Book 3 after the transformation of Tiresias, who in his first famous prophecy foretells it to the nymph (*) Liriope. Juno curses one of this myth’s central characters for telling stories to delay her during Jupiter’s liaisons. In this myth, an unrequited lover repeats the other’s last words, (10[1])“farewell,” as he pines (10[1])away, leaving only a yellow flower. (10[1])For 10 points, what myth relates a mute nymph’s love for a beautiful hunter obsessed with his own reflection? ■END■

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