Classical Allusions
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show | his mother dipped him in the river Styx to give him immortality but neglected to include the heel she held him by
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show | a mortal youth who was loved by Aphrodite for his great beauty and later killed by a wild boar
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Aphrodite / Venus | show 🗑
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show | god of the sun; patron of healing
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Arachne | show 🗑
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Ares / Mars | show 🗑
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Artemis / Diana | show 🗑
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Athena / Minerva | show 🗑
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show | race of being half man and half horse
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Cerberus | show 🗑
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show | the void which came into being before anything else
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show | he castrated his father and became ruler of the universe
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show | race of one-eyed giants
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show | imprisoned in a labyrinth; built wings from wax and feathers; the son fell but the father escaped safely
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Dionysus / Bacchus | show 🗑
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show | god of love; pictured as a winged boy
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show | a princess whom Zeus raped and abducted
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Hades / Pluto | show 🗑
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Haphaestus / Vulcan | show 🗑
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show | son of Zeus and a mortal; famous for his great strength and endurance
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Medusa | show 🗑
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show | the messenger of the gods
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Midas | show 🗑
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show | half man half bull, wild and violent, demands sacrifices yearly of Greek youths and maidens; imprisoned in the labyrinth
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show | gorgeous man who admired himself; he got stuck peering into a pond, admiring his reflection, and became a flower that grows there
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Echo | show 🗑
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show | goddess of retributive justice or vengeance
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show | name means “man of wrath"; hero of the Odyssey; masterminded the Trojan horse
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Oedipus | show 🗑
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Pan / Satyr | show 🗑
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show | first mortal woman; sent to Earth as punishment to Man; opens a box which releases all human ills into the world
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Paris | show 🗑
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Persephone | show 🗑
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Demeter / Ceres | show 🗑
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show | a bird that is immortal, but dies in self-guilt pyre every 500-600 years and then is reborn from the ashes; a symbol of rebirth and / or immortality
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show | god of the sea
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Prometheus | show 🗑
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show | goddess of emotion; great mortal beauty whom Venus is very jealous of because of her beauty
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show | sentenced by Zeus to forever push a boulder up a hill, only to fail before it reaches the top
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show | the river that divides the land of the living from Hades, the land of the dead
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show | a group of nymphs who lived on an island and lured men to their destruction
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The Titans | show 🗑
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show | the west wind
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Zeus | show 🗑
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