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Cultural Literacy
mythological reference allusions
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English
10th Grade
12/07/2006

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Adonis
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beautiful boy loved by Aphrodite (flower Myth)
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Achilles
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the greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War - weak point was his heel
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Amazons
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warrior women
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Ambrosia
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food of the gods-those who ate it became imortal
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Aphrodite
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Goddess of love and beauty/Venus
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Apollo
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God of peotry, light, and medicine
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Ares
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God of war/ Mars
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Argus
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creature with 100 eyes-when killed eyes put in tail of peacock
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Artemis
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Goddess of hunt and Moon/Diana
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Athena
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Minerva/Goddess of wisdom
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Atlas
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Titan who supported Earth and Sky on his shoulders
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Augean stables
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stables in labors of Hercules that hadn't been cleaned for 30 years
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