Allusions 1-30

Question 1

Achilles/ Achilles Heel

Answer 1

Was killed by an arrow on the heel= Achilles’ Heel
- Weakness in despite of strength

Question 2

Adonis

Answer 2

A young man who was so beautiful that his very name became a metaphor for male physical beauty, at least in reference to young men.

Question 3

aeneas

Answer 3

mythical hero of Troy and Rome, son of the goddess Aphrodite and Anchises. Aeneas was a member of the royal line at Troy and cousin of Hector. He played a prominent part in defending his city against the Greeks during the Trojan War, being second only to Hector in ability.
- He heroically sacrifices his happiness and his love to Dido to the sake of his duties before gods and his people

Question 4

Ares/Mars

Answer 4

the ancient Greek god of war or, more properly, the spirit of battle.

Question 5

Argus/ Argus Eyes

Answer 5

was a servant of the goddess Hera and he made an excellent watchman because he never fell asleep
- had 100 eyes. The Greek queen Juno had him spy on her wayward husband

Question 6

Athena/Minerva

Answer 6

The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving

Question 7

Atlas

Answer 7

Titan god who bore the sky aloft. He personified the quality of endurance
- holds the world on his shoulders= book of maps

Question 8

Delphic Oracle

Answer 8

• made prophecies (predictions) about the future.
• strengths was its ability to help to establish law and order.

Question 9

Bacchus/Dionysus

Answer 9

Greek god of fertility. Later, he came to be known chiefly as the god of wine and pleasure

Question 10

Niobe

Answer 10

• punished by the gods for acting on human weakness, and using her family merely for status
• the bereaved mother, weeping for the loss of her children.

Question 11

Judgement of Paris

Answer 11

• a contest between the three most beautiful goddesses of Olympos–Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena–for the prize of a golden apple addressed “To the Fairest.”

Question 12

Jupiter/Zeus

Answer 12

-the chief deity of the pantheon, a sky and weather god
-god of thunder

Question 13

Laocoon

Answer 13

• was killed with both his sons after attempting to expose the ruse of the Trojan Horse by striking it with a spear.
• a priest of Poseidon

Question 14

Prometheus

Answer 14

• Titan god of fire and supreme trickster
• Created Man from clay
• defied the gods by giving man fire
• sentenced to eternal torment

Question 15

Nike

Answer 15

goddess of victory

Question 16

Pygmalion

Answer 16

• a sculptor who at first hated women but then fell in love with a statue he made of a woman

Question 17

Odin

Answer 17

god of poetry, of the dead, of runes, and of magic

Question 18

Cassandra

Answer 18

Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies but never to be believed.

Question 19

Cerberus

Answer 19

the monstrous watchdog of the underworld, had a bunch of heads

Question 20

Ceres/Demeter

Answer 20

goddess of the harvest and was credited with teaching humans how to grow, preserve, and prepare grain and corn

Question 21

Chimera

Answer 21

a fire-breathing female monster resembling a lion in the forepart, a goat in the middle, and a dragon behind

Question 22

Circe

Answer 22

a goddess of sorcery who was skilled in the magic of transmutation, illusion, and necromancy.

Question 23

Daedalus

Answer 23

a mythical inventor, created wings made of feathers and wax to escape from Crete where he and his son, Icarus, were held captive by King Minos

Question 24

Damocles

Answer 24

represented the idea that those in power always labor under the specter of anxiety and death, and that “there can be no happiness for one who is under constant apprehensions.”

Question 25

Hera/Juno

Answer 25

goddess of women, marriage, and childbirth

Question 26

Electra

Answer 26

• Greek goddess of the storm clouds
• a term used to describe the female version of the Oedipus complex

Question 27

Pan

Answer 27

the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs

Question 28

Pandora’s Box

Answer 28

She afterward opened the jar, from which the evils flew out over the earth.

Question 29

Paris

Answer 29

Paris, while he was still a shepherd, was chosen by Zeus to determine which of three goddesses was the most beautiful

Question 30

Parnassus

Answer 30

known as the mythological home of music and poetry