Dryope

This is a very short and very pointless myth.

Basically Dryope, her sister, and her baby go looking for flowers. Dryope pluck off a purple flower from a branch, not realizing the branch is actually a nymph in disguise, who proceeds to turn Dryope into a tree (although she has time to say goodbye to her sister, baby, and husband, and warn them to be careful to watch what flowers they pick from now one).

This is the kind of myth I hate. A mortal makes a simple mistake, and she gets turned into a tree. It's not fair! How was Dryope supposed to know that the tree was a nymph? Was there any warning? And what right does that nymph have to turn her into a tree? It's completely ridiculous, and it just goes to show how little gods respect human life.

Actually, that made me think about the clip we listened to today in English class. While I agree that gods and Hollywood movie stars are similar in some ways, they also have many differences. Stars, though they do not have to follow every single law, and are (very lightly, but still) punished when they break them. Gods can do whatever they want to, and no one says/does anything. Also, people can say things like, "Brad Pitt is such a loser, he's a horrible actor and he's not even that hot," and no one cares, but I bet that if Kostov had said something like, "Zeus is such a loser, he's a horrible god and he's not even that hot," Kostov would've been struck by lightning.