The Greek God or Goddess of...
Literary devices
Who said it?
Symbols
Greek terms
100

Sky & Thunder 

Zeus

100

Jocasta: "Your father's death is a bright light"

Metaphor

100

“I feel great shame in trampling on my household, wrecking its wealth, these weavings silver bought us.”

Agamemnon

100

An act of defiance towards the gods

The purple carpet

100

An actor/performer

Thespian

200

The hunt, the wilderness, and the wild animals

Artemis

200

Tiresias: "Blind instead of seeing, beggar instead of rich, he'll make his way to a foreign land, feeling the ground with a stick."

Foreshadowing

200

 “Quiet! Who’s shouting? What’s this deadly wound?”

Chorus 

200

This object represents helplessness

A net

200

Extreme possession of pride and arrogance in a given individual

Hubris

300

The grape harvest, wine & intoxication

Dionysus 

300

Chorus: "All seeing Time has found you out against your will"

Personification

300

“I tended flocks for almost all my life"

Shepherd

300

Seeing the truth and/or recognizing faith

Eyes/sight/blindness

300

A dangerous aura representing consequence that plagues a place or people.

Miasma

400

The sun, logic & reason

Apollo

400

Chorus: "No longer will I go in reverence to the untouchable navel of earth, or to the temple at Abai, or to Olympia"

Allusion

400

 “In that case, you can call yourself acquitted! Listen to me and know no mortal man has any share in arts of prophecy.”

Jocasta 

400

Constraint and confinement since birth

Feet/ankles

400

Embodiments of vengeance relentlessly pursuing their target

Erinyes/Furies

500

(Titan) Fire & supreme trickery

Prometheus 

500

Tiresias, the blind seer

Irony

500

“These words will father pain to make you sob."

Aegisthus 

500

When different decisions are possible to make

Crossroads

500

The achievement of understanding from experience and suffering

Pathei mathos

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