Greek Allusions III

Atropos

She who could not be turned, who carried the shears and cut the threat at death

Dido

founded Carthage. She got romantically involved with Aeneas and provided him with all she could — all of her wealth, city, and property was open to him. He left her when Zeus commanded him to, so he could found Rome, and she jumped off a cliff.

Diomedes

Crazy champion of the Trojan War. He was an Argive, one of the greatest heroes of the argives, Achean, son of tydeus, king of argos

Dionysus (bacchus)

Son of Zeus and Semele (Thebes). Hera made Semele wish to see Zeus in his full glory, upon which she died. Zeus nursed him for the remaining period of gestation and afterwards nymphs. Party god, wine god, etc.

Echo

The fariest nymph, and a favorite of Artemis, fell in love with Narcissus who denied her, she haunts caves and echoey places

Electra

Agamemnon and Clytemnestra’s daughter, Orestes’ sister, she wasted away w/o love from her mother or father in law until Orestes came back

Elysian Fields

Where the good dead people go, in hades

Eris

Ares’ sister, Discord

Eros

See Cupid

Europa

Daughter of the King of Sideo, Zeus absconded with her, her sons were made famous men and judges of the dead, europe names after her

Euterpe

Muse of Lyric poetry

Eurydice

Married to Orpheus, she died shortly after, he went to the underworld to get her back because he was so saddened, he got her up to the end of the cavern and then he looked at her sending her back to hades

Fates-Spinners

Moirae in greek, parcae in latin, give to men at birth evil and good to have, there were 3, clotho, the spinner, who spun the thread of life, LAchesis, the disposer of lots who assigned to each man his destiny and Atropos who cuts the string

Gorgons

also earth-dwellers, there were 3 and two of them were immortal, they were dragon like creatures with wings whos look turned men to stone, Phorcys son of the sea and the earth, was their father medusa etc.

Hades (pluto)

The god of the underworld, his queen is persephone, hes one of the three who divided the universe with zeus and poseidon, he had a far famed cap or hemet which made whoever wore it invisible he was king of the dead

Hecate

Artemis is identified with hevate, selene in the sky, artemis on earth, hecate in the lower world and in the world avoce when it is wrapped in darkness, Hecate was the goddess of the dark of the moon, the black nights when the moon is hidden

Hector

The champion of Troy, son of priam, killed patroclus, paris’ brother, killed by achilles

Hecuba

Priam’s queen. Hectors mother, she had 19 children with apollo, hecuba had a son named Troilus

Helen

The fairest women in the world, the daughter of zeus and leda, sister of castor and pollux, married to menelaus, paris stole her away thanks to aphrodite, the face that launched a thousand ships

Hephaestus (Vulcan)

God of fire, sometimes said to be the son of zeus and hera, sometimes of hera alone the only ugly god, also lame