Pyramus and Thisbe

It sounds funny, but I just found out that the famous Romeo and Juliet story from William Shakespeare is a copy. This tragic love story was originally from Ovid ( Publius Ovidius Naso) a long time before Shakespeare even was in the world, in 43 BC. He was an author of classical mythology and the story Pyramus and Thisbe is exactly like Romeo and Juliet.

Pyramus and Thisbe are neighbors, but they families are enemies, so they forbitt the love beetween the two teenagers. Every day they secretly meet at "Ninus", a tomb under a mulberry tree. Thisbe came earlier and she waited for a while under the tree when suddenly appear a lioness, she is horrified and runs away. Then, Pyramus arrives and he sees Thisbe's veil with blood on the ground. He thinks that she was killed, and kill his self with a sword. Thisbe, still horrofied, go back to see Pyramus, but she only finds his dead body and decided to kill herself with the same sword. This all happens under the mulberry tree, which fruits are supposed to be white, but after this tragic story they turned dark to honour the forbidden love.