Allusions I

Question 1

Bacchus

Answer 1

Dionysus/God of wine

Question 1

Aeneas

Answer 1

Aphrodite’s son, founder of Rome, traveled in the underworld

Question 2

Acheron River

Answer 2

River to the underworld –> Charon the ferryman of hell

Question 3

Ares

Answer 3

God of war, son of Zeus and Hera, affair with Aphrodite

Question 4

Argonauts

Answer 4

band of heroes in Greek mythology (Hercules, etc.) led by Jason on the Argo & all drank the peerless elixir of valor bc Hera

Question 5

Apollo

Answer 5

bacchus brother god

Question 6

Calliope

Answer 6

goddess of music

Question 7

Antigone

Answer 7

Oedipus’s daughter who took care of him when he was expelled

Question 8

Amazons

Answer 8

Women army (think Wonder Woman) and fought against greeks in trojian war

Question 9

Agamemnon

Answer 9

Trojan war Hero, killed by his own wife by poison

Question 10

Arachne

Answer 10

tied w Athena in weaving, turned into muse of poetry

Question 11

Aphrodite

Answer 11

Goddess of love

Question 12

Actaeon

Answer 12

man saw Artemis bathing turned deer and his owl wolves killed him

Question 13

Artemis

Answer 13

(Diana) the lady of wild thing - one of three maiden goddesses

Question 14

Ariadne

Answer 14

Mino’s daughter, helped Theseus escape from the minotaur and was left to die on an island

Question 14

Atalanta

Answer 14

wanted to sail or Argo, married Hippomenes, and turned into lion b/c husband didn’t honor Aphrodite

Question 15

Argus

Answer 15

Giant w one eye/ Hera’s tacky

Question 16

Achilles

Answer 16

dipped in the river styx

Question 17

Aegeus

Answer 17

King of Athens, killed himself after thinking his son had died in battle