AP Lit Greek Allusion Week 3

Atropos

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

Dido

Founded Carthage

Diomedes

King of Argos, champion of the Trojan War.

Dionysus

Son of Zeus and Semele (Thebes).

Echo

The fairest nymph, and a favorite of Artemis.

Electra

Agamemnon and Clytemnestra’s daughter.

Elysian Fields

Where the good dead people go in Hades

Eris

Ares’ sister, the app Discord gets its name from her

Eros

Cupid, Aphrodite’s son. All men serve him of their own freewill. Sometimes portrayed as a child, or Aphrodite’s companion. Either a mischievous boy or much worse.

Europa

Daughter of the King of Sidon.

Euterpe

Muse of lyric poetry and music

Eurydice

Married to Orpheus, she died shortly after. He went to the Underworld to get her back because he was so sad. He got her up to the end of the cavern, and then he looked at her, sending her back to Hades.

Gorgons

Also earth-dwellers. There were 3, and 2 of them were immortal. They were dragon-like creatures with wings, whose look turned men to stone. Phorcys, son of the Sea and Earth, was their father. Percy beheaded Medusa, one of the 3.Percy returned the eye of the Graiai

Hades

The god of the Underworld.

Hecate

Artemis is identified with her. Selene in the sky, Artemis on Earth, her in the lower world and in the world above when it wrapped in darkness.

Hector

The champion of Troy, son of Priam.

Hecuba

Priam’s queen. Hector’s mother

Helen

She was the fairest woman in the world, the daughter of Zeus and Leda, sister of Castor and Pollux.

Hephaestus

God of fire, sometimes said to be the son of Zeus and Hera, sometimes of Hera alone.

Fate Spinners

Moirae in Greek, parcae in Latin. Give to men at birth evil and good to have. They were three; Clotho, the Spinner, who spun the thread of life; Lachesis, the Disposer of Lots, who assigned to each man his destiny; Atropos, she who could not be turned, who carried the shears and cut the thread at death.The three fates spinning the thread of human destiny. Cut the string of life.

Dido

Dated Aeneas and gave him everything, but when Zeus commanded him to leave her to go found Rome, she jumped off of a cliff.

Diomedes

He was an Argive, and was one of the greatest heroes of the Argives.

Diomedes

Son of Tydeus.

Dionysus

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.

Dionysus

Party god, wine god, etc.

Echo

Fell in love with Narcissus, who denied her.

Echo

She haunts caves.

Electra

Orestes’ sister, she wasted away without love from her mother or father in law until Orestes came back.

Europa

Zeus absconded with her, and Zeus turned into a bull to abduct her.

Europa

Her sons were made famous men and judged of the dead.

Hades

His queen is Persephone.

Hades

He’s 1 of the 3 who divided the universe with Zeus and Poseidon.

Hades

He had a far famed cap or helmet which made whoever wore it invisible.

Hades

He was King of the Dead.

Hades

He worked with Cerberus.

Hades

He abducted Persephone

Hecate

She was the Goddess of the Dark of the Moon, the black nights when the moon is hidden.

Hector

Killed Patroclus. Paris’ brother.

Hector

Achilles killed him.

Hecuba

She had 19 children. With the god Apollo, she had a son named Troilus.

Helen

Married to Menelaus. Paris stole her away thanks to Aphrodite.

Helen

The face that launched a thousand ships. She boarded a ship for Troy.

Hephaestus

The only ugly and lame god.