Classical Allusions
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| Achilles | 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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| Adonis | 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 | goddess of love and beauty
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| Apollo / Sol | god of the sun; patron of healing
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| Arachne | mortal who was a great weaver and very arrogant of her ability; Athena turned her into a spider
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| Ares / Mars | god of warfare
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| Artemis / Diana | sister of Apollo; drives a chariot that carries the moon; goddess of the hunt
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| Athena / Minerva | goddess of wisdom and warfare; was “born” full-grown and wearing armor
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| Centaur | race of being half man and half horse
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| Cerberus | three-headed watchdog who guards the entrance to Hades
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| Chaos | the void which came into being before anything else
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| Cronos | he castrated his father and became ruler of the universe
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| Cyclops | race of one-eyed giants
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| Daedalus and Icarus | imprisoned in a labyrinth; built wings from wax and feathers; the son fell but the father escaped safely
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| Dionysus / Bacchus | god of wine and revelry
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| Eros / Cupid | god of love; pictured as a winged boy
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| Europa | a princess whom Zeus raped and abducted
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| Hades / Pluto | God of the Underworld; god of wealth
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| Haphaestus / Vulcan | god of fire; a blacksmith; the only god who is deformed
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| Hercules | son of Zeus and a mortal; famous for his great strength and endurance
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| Medusa | young woman whose crowning glory was her hair; Athena turned her hair into snakes and gave her the power to turn anyone who looked directly at her into stone
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| Mercury | the messenger of the gods
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| Midas | was given his wish that everything he touched would turn to gold
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| Minotaur | half man half bull, wild and violent, demands sacrifices yearly of Greek youths and maidens; imprisoned in the labyrinth
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| Narcissus | 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 | cursed with not being table to speak her own thoughts but only repeating what others said
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| Nemesis | goddess of retributive justice or vengeance
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| Odysseus / Ulysses | name means “man of wrath"; hero of the Odyssey; masterminded the Trojan horse
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| Oedipus | abandoned at birth by his parents who were trying to avoid a horrible prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother
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| Pan / Satyr | half man and half goat, with a tail, pointy ears, and an immoral nature, usually plays pipes
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| Pandora | 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 | son of the last king of Troy; forced to award a golden apple to one of three women whom he considers the most beautiful; steals Helen and starts the Trojan war
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| Persephone | daughter of Demeter whom Hades marries and takes to Hades; spends six months of the year below ground with Hades and six months above ground with her mother
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| Demeter / Ceres | the goddess of agriculture and fruitfulness; guardian of marriage
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| Phoenix | 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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| Poseidon / Neptune | god of the sea
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| Prometheus | a Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to Man
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| Psyche | goddess of emotion; great mortal beauty whom Venus is very jealous of because of her beauty
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| Sisyphus | sentenced by Zeus to forever push a boulder up a hill, only to fail before it reaches the top
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| Styx | the river that divides the land of the living from Hades, the land of the dead
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| The Sirens | a group of nymphs who lived on an island and lured men to their destruction
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| The Titans | ruled the world after having dethroned their father Uranus, the first ruler of the universe
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| Zephyr | the west wind
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| Zeus | king of the gods
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