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Rummage Allusions
pp.7&8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The daughter of Iasus and Clymene | Atalanta |
| Very swift of foot | Atalanta |
| refused to marry anyone unless he first defeated her in a race. If the runner lost, he had to die. | Atalanta |
| carried the apples of hesperides into the race and dropped them at crucial points, knowing Atalanta would pick them up | Hippomenes |
| Took part in the hunt for the Calydonian boar. | Atalanta |
| a contest in which a ruse is successful | "Atalanta's race" |
| Sometimes called Pallas Athena or Minerva | Athena |
| primarily the goddes of the wisdom of the city and of civilized life | Athena |
| Said to have sprung fully grown and clad for battle from the head of Zeus. | Athena |
| patron goddes of Athens | Athena |
| Athena's shrine | The Parthenon |
| Athena's symbol | the owl |
| Siad to have created olive trees. | Athena |
| Wrote The Three Musketeers | Dumas |
| The Three Musketeers | Athos, Porthos and Aramis |
| gallant and reserved | Athos |
| large, strong and somewhat mediocre intellectually | Porthos |
| mysteriou, black-garbed and pious | Aramis |
| symbols of any compnaions in adventure | The Three Musketeers |
| one of the race of Titans of Greek myth | Atlas |
| Said to bear the burden of heaven on his shoulders. | Atlas |
| showed Atlas Medusa's head | Heracles |
| Changed into the rocky mountain range running east-west across northern Africa | Atlas |
| Anyone who supports a weighty burden | Atlas |
| Famous for his wars and depredations against parts of Europe which hastened the final disintegration of the Roman Empire | Attila the Hun |
| Called the "scourge of God" | Attila the Hun |
| His armies overran the Balkans between 447-450 | Attila the Hun |
| His armies were feared for their violence and cruelty | Attila the Hun |
| year Attila the Hun died | 453 |
| hero of Peirre Cornielle's tragedy Attila | Attila the Hun |
| anyone of extreme brutality and violence | Attila the Hun |
| One of the Labors of Heracles | Cleaning the Augean Stables. |
| cleaned by the diverted waters of the Alpheus River | Augean Stables. |
| The task of cleaning a gigantic mess | Cleaning the Augean Stables. |
| term applied to the efforts of a reform government upon succeeding a corrupt one | Cleaning the Augean Stables. |
| An disland paradise in the western seas where King Arthur died and other heroes went after they died | Avalon |
| Doctor protagonist of Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith | Martin Arrowsmith |
| torn by the conflict between his devotion to research and the practical world of medicine | Martin Arrowsmith |
| a highly idealistic person forced to struggle with the temptations and compromises of the real world | Martin Arrowsmith |
| Called Diana by the Romans | Artemis |
| daughter of Zeus and Leto | Artemis |
| Twin sister of Apollo | Artemis |
| born on the island of Delos | Artemis |
| A huntress armed with a bow and quiver and protectress of the young | Artemis |
| associated with selene, the moon goddess, and hecate, the goddess of the underworld | Artemis |
| played a key role in numerous myths: the sacrifice of Iphigenia, the death of Actaeon,the death of Orion, the slaying of niobe's children, and the story of phaedra and Hippolytus | Artemis |
| referred to today as symbolic patronesses of the young woman athlete | Artemis |
| Pupil of Fagin and expert pickpocket in Oliver Twist | Artful Dodger |
| term used for and skilled theif or trickster engaged in illegal action | Artful Dodger |
| Legendary English King who, with the help of Merlin, succeeded at the age of 15 to the throne of his father, Uther Pendragon. | Arthur |
| presided over the Knights of the Round Table | Arthur |
| enchanted by Lady of the Lake | Arthur |
| searched fo rthe Holy Grail | Arthur |
| died in battle with his nephew Mordred | Arthur |
| buried on Avalon | Arthur |
| "Dwelling-place of the Aesir" | Asgard |
| home of the gods in Scandinavian and Germanic mythology | Asgard |
| Connected with earth by a celestial bridge, Bifrost, the rainbow | Asgard |
| Odin's palace | Valhalla |
| In The SUn Also Rises, a sophisticated Englishwoman in love with Jake Barnes but compulsively involved in sterile love affairs | Brett Ashley |
| ARchetypal of the "Lost Generation" | Brett Ashley |
| The Canaanite and Phoenician goddess of love and fertility | Ashtoreth |
| called Astarte by the greeks and corresponding to the Babylonian Ishtar and the Greek love goddess Aphrodite | Ashtoreth |
| rite connected with male god Baal | Ashtoreth |
| sacred prostitution practiced in her temples attracted Solomon | Ashtoreth |
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