Hero promised to put a light in her tower so that he might have some beacon to guide him as he breasted the uncertain sea.

I lost the key of a box and had a new key made, and afterwards I found the old one. Now, which of the keys should I keep?

The Queen being quite young and very beautiful, wants something more than the old man who is her King.

It was a steep and perilous journey to the kingdom of the dead, and the road was one that no mortal foot had ever trod.

One evening as she stopped at a brookside to drink, she met a handsome youth named Narcissus, and at once fell in love with him

Daphne hated Apollo's words of passionate love, and at her own request, was turned into a laurel tree in order to escape his advances.

To himself he vowed that he would win Atalanta, but not without help from the gods was this possible. Therefore he sought Aphrodite herself

He then went home, but concealed from his father the fact that he had fallen in love with the beautiful daughter of the tortoise.