Allusions II

Question 1

Calypso

Answer 1

Nymph who held odyssey captive for a few years on an island

Question 2

Cassandra

Answer 2

gifted foresight by Apollo who loved her but cursed to never be believed

Question 3

Castor and Pollux

Answer 3

brothers one died and the other split his immortality between the two of them so half time on earth half time in heaven (constellation gemini)

Question 4

Centaurs

Answer 4

half man and half horse

Question 5

Ceres (Demeter)

Answer 5

Goddess of the corn, mother of persephone

Question 5

Cerberus

Answer 5

three headed dog, permits spirits to enter but never return

Question 6

Charon

Answer 6

ferryman of hell, said to be a little boy or something worse, takes coins from the mouths of the dead to pay for transportation

Question 7

Charybdis

Answer 7

cursed by zeus to be a sea dragon thing –> will pools (poisoned by circe)

Question 8

Chimera

Answer 8

Lion, serpent, goat, can breath fire

Question 9

Circe

Answer 9

sorceress, turned men into animals, fell in love with odysseus

Question 10

Clio

Answer 10

muse of history

Question 11

Clytemnestra

Answer 11

killed husband Agamemnon

Question 12

Creon

Answer 12

ruler of theses in oedipus

Question 13

Cupid

Answer 13

god of love

Question 14

Cyclops

Answer 14

giant with one eye

Question 15

Daedalus

Answer 15

he was imprisioned, made wax wings for him and his son, son flew to close to the sun and melted the wings –:> fell into sea and drowned

Question 16

Danae

Answer 16

mother of Persus, locked in cave, locked in chest at sea, gave brith to zeus’s son

Question 17

Danaids

Answer 17

50 daughters, killed their husbands, something about having to fill a bottomless jug

Question 18

Delphi

Answer 18

Apollos oracle

Question 19

Dido

Answer 19

she jumped off a cliff