Allusions II Flashcards
Calypso
Nymph who held odyssey captive for a few years on an island
Cassandra
gifted foresight by Apollo who loved her but cursed to never be believed
Castor and Pollux
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)
Centaurs
half man and half horse
Ceres (Demeter)
Goddess of the corn, mother of persephone
Cerberus
three headed dog, permits spirits to enter but never return
Charon
ferryman of hell, said to be a little boy or something worse, takes coins from the mouths of the dead to pay for transportation
Charybdis
cursed by zeus to be a sea dragon thing –> will pools (poisoned by circe)
Chimera
Lion, serpent, goat, can breath fire
Circe
sorceress, turned men into animals, fell in love with odysseus
Clio
muse of history
Clytemnestra
killed husband Agamemnon
Creon
ruler of theses in oedipus
Cupid
god of love
Cyclops
giant with one eye
Daedalus
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
Danae
mother of Persus, locked in cave, locked in chest at sea, gave brith to zeus’s son
Danaids
50 daughters, killed their husbands, something about having to fill a bottomless jug
Delphi
Apollos oracle
Dido
she jumped off a cliff
