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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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