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Know Your Literary Allusions (50 experience points) Because there are so many references to Greek mythology and the Christian Bible in literature, particularly Western literature, your reading of all literature will be improved and supported by knowing them. The names, events, places, objects, etc., below are a collection of the most widely used references. They are not meant to be inclusive of all the references used in literature nor of all the religious and folk traditions in the world. Certainly, your reading of literature from other than Western traditions (African, Islamic, South American, Asian, etc.) would be improved by studying the folklore and motifs of those traditions as well. Briefly define or explain each one. Greek Mythology Achilles Adonis Aeneas Ares/Mars Argus Athena/Minerva Atlas Augean stables Bacchus/Dionysus Cassandra Cerberus Ceres/Demeter chimera Circe Daedalus Damocles Delphic oracle Electra Elysian Fields Golden Fleece Hades Hector Holy Grail Hera/Juno Hermes Hiawatha Judgment of Paris Jupiter/Zeus Laocoon Leda and the swan Midas Nemesis Pan Pandora’s Box Paris Parnassus Prometheus Proteus Pygmalion Romulus and Remus Scylla and Charybdis Sisyphus Tiresias Titan Venus/Aphrodite Vesta Zephyr Biblical References Abraham and Isaac Annunciation Ararat Armageddon Babel Babylon burning bush Damascus Esther golden calf Jacob’s Ladder Jeremiah Job Leviathan Lot’s wife Methuselah olive branch pearls before swine Promised Land Prodigal Son Queen of Sheba Ruth Resources: Edith Hamilton’s Mythology; www.classicalmythology.org; www.mythweb.com/index.html; www.fact-index.com/l/li/list_of_biblical_figures.html
