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Diana and Acteon

This myth begins when a young man named Acteon, decides to go for a walk in the woods. Meanwhile, Diana the goddess, was being by her nymphs in a beautifully decorated cave. Not knowing this, Acteon walks into the caves a sees Diana unapparelled, making her very angry. She turns him into some type of animal and his own friends hunt man down. With his death, the goddess becomes satisfied. I´d like to compare the Diana in this myth, to celebrities nowadays. It happens all the time, someone young, attractive, and famous is caught exposing her private areas. To some of them, it happens accidentally, but there celebrities that do it on purpose. However, none of them can react the way Diana. Of course, they do feel ashamed, but the person responsible for it is never suffers like Acteon did. There is another difference too, the media nowadays is always in the lookout for something like this to happen, making it their fault. Acteon, on the other hand, accidentally walked into Diana while she was bathing, and he still got a way more severe punishment.

Latona and the Rustics

This myth was about a goddess, Latona, who finds a crystal clear lake in a valley. She had just been on a journey and was very thirsty, and thought of taking a drink of water from the lake. Unfortunately, when she tried to do this, the Rustic people who lived in the area, forbid her from taking water. No matter how much she begged, their answer was no. Enraged, the goddess put a curse on all the Rustics and turned them into frogs. This myth brings us to the argument about how humans waste water. Experts say that in just a few decades, water will become an issue of concern. Each year, humans are wasting gallons and gallons of drinkable water, even though there are millions of people out there dying of thirst each day. Soon, this amount will increase and it will be our children, the next generation, who will have to confront this problem. I´m not sure if the Rustics were trying to conserve water if they just selfish. In any case, they should have shared this resource while the world still had allot it.

Pygmalion-Dryope-Venus-and Adonis-Apollo-and Hyacinthus

Pygmalion was a sculpture. One day, he a create a perfect statue of a woman and immediately fell in love with it. This obsession lead the man to marrying his work of art. One day, he asked the gods to turn her into a real woman. Pygmalion went home to find out that his wish had come true. I believe it´s absolutely normal to be proud of something you made, but this man crossed the line. It´s even more than an obsession that he experiences, he actually falls in love with the statue. By doing this though, he is able to make the gods turn her into a real woman. Although he his act was extremely crazy, Pygamlion ends up having what he wanted.