# Thisbe — Metamorphoses character guide

> Thisbe in Metamorphoses by Ovid.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Meantime poor Thisbe

**First appearance:** 0031-story-of-pyramus-and-thisbe

## Snapshot

A Babylonian girl who whispers through a crack in the wall to the one boy her parents forbid, risking everything for a love that speaks in shadows.

## Who they are

Thisbe is the girl next door in the oldest sense — separated from Pyramus by a family feud and a single chink in the masonry, she turns a wall into a confessional. Her longing is patient and reckless at once: she agrees to slip out at night to meet him beneath a mulberry tree, a plan that puts her alone in the wild with only her courage. Their doomed rendezvous, retold by Ovid with heartbreaking economy, becomes the template for every star-crossed pair who followed.

## In the story

### [Book IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metamorphoses_se/chapters/book-iv)

Beloved of Pyramus; she returns to find him dead and joins him in death by falling on his sword.

### [Story of Pyramus and Thisbe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metamorphoses_se/chapters/story-of-pyramus-and-thisbe)

A beautiful maiden who loves Pyramus; she flees from a lioness and later dies by Pyramus's sword.

## Links

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