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====In literature allusion is term that describes a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature. Allusions are often indirect or brief references to well-known characters or events. ====

//Than I to Hercules. (I, ii) //


Modern Literature of Ancient Greek Mythology There have been many attempts to modernize Greek Mythology yet only one author comes to mind, [|Rick Riordan]. An author from San Anotonio, Texas. His mystery series has been awarded multiple times and his new series [|//Percy Jackson and the Olympians//] This obviously includes Greek Mythology. Yet Riordan was very clever with his approach toward the ancient tales of fallen heroes and cruel gods. He made it very... western. Riordan had Americanized Greek Mythology. Applying modern technology, American marvels, and everyday life in America. For example, in [|The Battle of the Labyrinth,] the fourth book. Percy comes across [|empousai] disguised as two cheerleaders.




 * 1) The mystical and cursed realms of Hades mapped and described.


 * 1) The legion of demons and monsters that inhabit Hades.


 * 1) New horrors such as the Hades Netherbeast, Black Vultures, Ant Lions, and Pit Vipers, along with old favorites.


 * 1) Journey through places like the Fire Bog, the Island of the Dead and Forest of Stone, and learn the secrets of infernal life.


 * 1) Demon Bone Weapons, Soul Cannons and other magical and terrible weapons of war.

-Luis Blanco
 * 1) The Minion War?: a plan by the demons of Hades to invade and conquer their arch-rivals, the demons of Dyval. But the demonic battles will spill into the worlds of man and wreak havoc across the Megaverse!

In the book "Ender's Game," Ender's brother Peter and sister Valentine come up with screen names to use on the nets in order to gain the influence and power to shape the events of a world in the process of rearranging itself. Peter names Valentine Demosthenes. The original Demosthenes was an orator in Athens during a tumultuous time in Greece after the Peloponnesian War. Valentine's Demosthenes develops into a paranoid anti-Russian writer. They are similar because they are both suspicious of the great powers of the time, and strive to warn people of possible outcomes of disregarding the threats that are becoming real in their worlds and times. //--Annakate Schatz

//In the Harry Potter books, one of the three main characters is named Hermione; she is a bright, rule-following, and rather tempermental witch. In Greek mythology, Hermione is the only daughter of Helen of Troy and Menelaus. //--Annakate Schatz//

Glowed on the marble, where the glass Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines From which a golden Cupidon peeped out..”. “The Chair…marble” is an allusion to the bedroom of Imogen in Shakespeare’s play Cymbeline.
 * In the poem "The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot** she says " The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,

Another allusion from this poem is “I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest - I too awaited the expected guest.” Tiresias was the famous blind prophet of ancient Greece. Tiresias is one of the major characters in The Odyssey by Homer. - Jean-Paul M


 * Allusions in //Inferno// by Dante** “Greater fear I do not think there was when Phaethon abandoned the reins, whereby heaven, as is still apparent, was scorched; nor when the wretched Icarus felt his flanks unfeathering through the melting of the wax, his father shouting to him, “Ill way thou holdest,” than mine was, when I saw that I was in the air on every side, and saw every sight vanished, except that of the beast.” - Jean-Paul M