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1. Philemon and Baucis were a loving couple who didn't want to live without one another so they asked the gods to let them die at the same time. The gods granted their wish and changed them into what?
2. Odysseus was so much in love with his wife Penelope that he rejected the love of a nymph whom he met during his lengthy wanderings. What was the nymph's name?
3. Admetus, while making nuptial offerings to the gods, forgot about the goddess Artemis, who, offended, took vengeance by sending lethal snakes to his chamber. However, at the request of her brother Apollo, Artemis agreed to let him live on the condition that somebody else would die in his place. The person who gave away her life for him was his wife - what was her name?
4. Orpheus was so much in love with his wife, Eurydice, that when she died, he followed her into the Underworld. The god of the Underworld let him take her back under certain conditions. Did Orpheus fulfil them and get her back?
5. Hecuba, wife of Priam, king of Troy, was totally devoted to her husband and family. When almost all her family members got killed by the Achaeans (Greeks), the gods turned her into which animal?
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