# Help me create a comprehensive list of famous star-crossed lovers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-create-a-comprehensive-list-of-famous-star-crossed-lovers/371667 "2006-09-06T17:39:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-create-a-comprehensive-list-of-famous-star-crossed-lovers/371667/41 "2006-09-07T21:14:36Z")
[QUOTE=Eonwe] Greek: **Pyramus** and **Thisbe** [/QUOTE] ☹ Just what I named myself of the website where I met my SO. Who renamed himself Pyramus\*. No wonder we ended up 3000 miles apart. I guess we should be glad no one’s been eaten by a lion yet. \*Actually I was Thysbe so he became Piramus…I spelled it wrong, so so did he. If nothing else we did exchange vowels. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-create-a-comprehensive-list-of-famous-star-crossed-lovers/371667/42 "2006-09-07T21:16:16Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] I didn’t notice this before. Does this mean we’re going to die? [/QUOTE] Of course YOU’RE not going to die, **Ana.** I wouldn’t let THAT happen. You’re completely and utterly safe. And there is no truth to the rumors that I have retained a clan of radioative post-pubescent samurai velociraptors to assassinate Zebra for attempting to seduce you. They’re deinonychuses. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-create-a-comprehensive-list-of-famous-star-crossed-lovers/371667/43 "2006-09-07T21:20:00Z")
The Phantom of the Opera and Christine. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-create-a-comprehensive-list-of-famous-star-crossed-lovers/371667/44 "2006-09-07T21:26:43Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] The Phantom of the Opera and Christine. [/QUOTE] Christine was less the Phantom’s lover than his intended rape victim. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-create-a-comprehensive-list-of-famous-star-crossed-lovers/371667/45 "2006-09-07T23:45:36Z")
Nitpick: Abelard was ordered castrated (balls, not penis, amputated) by Heloise’s guardian-uncle. They were [interred together](http://images.google.com/images?q=Heloise+Abelard+Lachaise&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images) in Paris’ famous La Pere Lachaise cemetary. Here’s mine: the [Hasanlu Lovers](http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0702/timeline.html) (scroll down to “1974”), a pair of erotically entwined skeletons unearthed at a Chinese archeological dig decades ago. The “Lovers” died c. 800 B.C.; when I read about them in an old cultural anthropology textbook, it was speculated that they perished when their village was attacked by enemy marauders. One possibility is that they hid together in an underground storage cavity and may have died of asphyxiation as their oxygen ran out; they weren’t necessarily awake or conscious when it happened. IIRC, they were probably both teenagers… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-create-a-comprehensive-list-of-famous-star-crossed-lovers/371667/46 "2006-09-08T03:03:22Z")
On a more serious note Tristan and Isolde David and Bathsheba? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-create-a-comprehensive-list-of-famous-star-crossed-lovers/371667/47 "2006-09-08T03:30:36Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] On a more serious note Tristan and Isolde David and Bathsheba? [/QUOTE] Definitely not the latter pair. He saw her naked, fucked her, and when she got knocked up, offed her husband and married her. Given that his second son by her inherited the throne (the first one being disqualified on account of being dead), there’s no way D & B were “star-crossed” by \*\*Anaamika’s \*\* definition. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-create-a-comprehensive-list-of-famous-star-crossed-lovers/371667.md?page=2)