Pyramus and Thisbe
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In Greek mythology, Pyramus and Thisbe are a pair of ill-fated lovers from Babylon, whose story is best known from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses. The tragic myth has been retold by many authors.
Pyramus and Thisbe from a Roman fresco in Pompeii.
Pyramus and Thisbe depicted as fresh water deities on a Roman mosaic from Antioch.
Pyramus and Thisbe by Gregorio Pagani. Uffizi Gallery.
Roman mosaic at Paphos, Cyprus
Nick Bottom
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Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play. A weaver by trade, he is famously known for getting his head transformed into that
Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1851)
Titania adoring Bottom. Oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1790
Hans Wassmann as Bottom, by Emil Orlik, 1909
Bottom (left) playing Pyramus in a Riverside Shakespeare Company production