AP Literature Allusions: Greek/Roman Myths, Judeo-Christian Myths, Norse Myths
3120470612 | phoenix | a bird that is immortal but dies in a self-built pyre every 500 or 600 years and is then reborn | 0 | |
3120470613 | Aphrodite/Venus | goddess of love and beauty | 1 | |
3120470614 | Psyche | a great mortal beauty, became the goddess of emotion | 2 | |
3120470615 | Neptune/Poseidon | god of the sea | 3 | |
3120470616 | Hades/Pluto | god of the underworld and wealth | 4 | |
3120470617 | Hephaestus/Vulcan | god of fire, a blacksmith, the only god who is deformed | 5 | |
3120470618 | Demeter/Ceres | goddess of agriculture and fruitfulness | 6 | |
3120470619 | Cupid/Eros | god of love, often pictured as a winged boy | 7 | |
3120470620 | Minotaur | half-man half-bull, imprisoned in the Labyrinth | 8 | |
3120470621 | Nemesis | the goddess of retributive justice or vengeance | 9 | |
3120470622 | Hercules/Heracles | famous for his great strength, performed 12 labors | 10 | |
3120470623 | Pandora | the first mortal woman sent to Earth to punish her maker Prometheus, opened a box that released all human ills | 11 | |
3120470624 | Daedalus and Icarus | a great inventor who designed the Labyrinth where he and his son got imprisoned, his son flew up too close to the sun and died | 12 | |
3120470625 | Achilles | hero of the Iliad, only vulnerable at his heel | 13 | |
3120470626 | Bacchus/Dionysus | god of wine and revelry | 14 | |
3120470627 | Narcissus | a gorgeous male who fell in love with his reflection and withered away staring at it | 15 | |
3120470628 | centaur | a race of beings half-man and half-horse | 16 | |
3120470629 | sirens | a group of nymphs who lived on an island and lured men to their destruction | 17 | |
3120470630 | cyclops | a race of one-eyed giants | 18 | |
3120470631 | Apollo | god of the sun, patron of healing | 19 | |
3120470632 | Artemis/Diana | sister of Apollo, drives a chariot that carries the moon, goddess of the hunt and patron of virgins | 20 | |
3120470633 | Adonis | a mortal youth who was loved by Aphrodite for his beauty, killed by a wild boar | 21 | |
3120470634 | Midas | he was given his wish that everything he touched would turn to gold | 22 | |
3120470635 | Athena/Minverva | goddess of wisdom and warfare, was born full grown and wearing armor from Zeus' head | 23 | |
3120470636 | Prometheus | a Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to man | 24 | |
3120470637 | Arachne | a mortal who defeated Athena in a weaving contest, turned to a spider | 25 | |
3120470638 | Mars/Ares | god of warfare | 26 | |
3120470639 | Pan | one of a group of satyrs (half-man half-goat) | 27 | |
3120470640 | Hermes/Mercury | the messenger of the gods, wears shoes of wings | 28 | |
3120470641 | Zeus/Jupiter | the king of the Greek/Roman gods, ruler of Mt. Olympus, god of the sky and thunder | 29 | |
3120470642 | Hera/Juno | wife of Zeus, goddess of marriage | 30 | |
3120470643 | Queen Jezebel | the wife of Ahab, evil and vicious actions | 31 | |
3120470644 | Philistines | enemies of the Hebrews | 32 | |
3120470645 | Peter | one of Jesus' disciples, walked on water, denied Christ three times | 33 | |
3120470646 | Cain and Abel | the first 2 sons of Adam and Eve, older killed the younger | 34 | |
3120470647 | Saul | king of the Hebrews known for his wisdom | 35 | |
3120470648 | Jonah | a Hebrew who God commanded to go call repentance to Nineveh, got swallowed by a whale when tried to avoid God's command | 36 | |
3120470649 | Moses | saved the Israelites from Egypt, warned of 10 plagues and split the Red Sea | 37 | |
3120470650 | David | a young boy who killed a huge enemy with a slingshot | 38 | |
3120470651 | Armegeddon | the great battle between the forces of good and evil in the last days | 39 | |
3120470652 | Job | God and Satan made a bet as to whether or not he would curse God, no matter what bad things occurred | 40 | |
3120470653 | Daniel | a young Hebrew prophet who prayed in defiance of the king's order, thrown into the lions' den | 41 | |
3120470654 | Magi | 3 wise men | 42 | |
3120470655 | Judas | one of the twelve apostles who sold Christ out | 43 | |
3120470656 | Samson and Delilah | had great strength, but Delilah convinced him to let her find his weakness, which was his hair | 44 | |
3120470659 | Thor | Norse god of sky, thunder, and fertility | 45 | |
3120470660 | Loki | the trickster | 46 |