Greek Heros
Murders and Murderers
Assassinations
Video Games
Shakespearean monologues and soliloquies
100

Often considered the greatest of the Greek heroes, he was the son of Alcmene and Zeus, which earned him the lifelong enmity of Zeus’s wife Hera. Hera struck him with a temporary madness so that he killed his wife Megara and their children.

Hercules

100

This woman was found not guilty of killing her father and step mother with an axe. 

Lizzie Borden 

100

This man yelled sic semper tyrannis as he shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in on March 4th 1865. 

John Wilkes Booth 

100

The best selling video game of all time that allows players to play in both Creative and Survival modes in which you battle enemies known as Creepers, Endermen, and zombies

Minecraft 

100
"To be or not to be" is a famous line delivered by this prince of Denmark. 

Hamlet

200

A prince of Athens who was described as both the son of King Aegeus and the son of Poseidon that was given a ball of string to help him navigate the Labyrinth where he successfully slew the Minotaur.

Theseus 

200

This nickname was given to Elizabeth Short, a waitress, who was discovered in a vacant lot; her corpse mutilated and luridly posed.

Black Dahlia 

200

The assassination of the man led to the start of World War I. 

Archduke Franz Ferdinad

200

With an internal game clock tied to real-life date and time, players of this game chop wood, plant flowers, go fishing, and sell fruit to improve their town. Developing the island unlocks a bigger house (provided by the raccoon-like loan shark Tom Nook) and prompts Saturday-night concerts from pop star dog K. K. Slider

Animal Crossing

200

After stabbing his best friend in the back, literally, this man shows up to his funeral to deliver his eulogy beginning" Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears." 

Brutus

300

Using Hermes’s winged sandals, Hades’s Helm of Invisibility, and a mirrored shield from Athena, this hero was able to behead Medusa.

Perseus 

300

This murderer killed 5 people, but claimed to have killed 37, saying he was collecting slaves for the afterlife.  He sent several letters to authorities using ciphers which he would sign with a crosshair symbol.

The Zodiac Killer

300

This man was stabbed 23 times on the ides of March by a group of senators. 

Julius Caesar 

300

This game's open-world environment (a New York City spoof called Liberty City) is an unprecedentedly adult playground filled with endless opportunities for mayhem that can be explored at a player’s leisure when not involved in guided missions, which involve the city’s criminal underworld; this detail was augmented by in-game radio stations that play in vehicles.

Grand Theft Auto III

300

Jacques delivers the following monologue in this play: "All the world is a stage. And all men and women merely players." 

As You Like it

400

Considered the greatest Greek warrior during the Trojan War, the man was the son of King Peleus and the Nereid Thetis, who dipped him in the River Styx as a child to make his body invulnerable, except for the heel by which she held him.

Achilles 

400

Carrying the novel Catcher in the Rye, this man killed John Lennon in New York on December 8th 1980. 

Mark David Chapman

400

This man was fatally shot by Sirhan Sirhan a day after winning the California presidential primary in 1968 and was only the 2nd US senator to be assassinated. 

Robert Kennnedy. 

400

An open-world game with an emphasis on stealth, Assassin’s Creed follows Desmond Miles, a bartender who is kidnapped by the Knights Templar and subjected to a machine that puts Desmond in the mind of one of his ancestors, an Assassin during the Third Crusade.

Assassin's Creed

400

According to Shakespeare, after delivering this speech to his troops, Henry the V's army suffered only 30 casualties while the French more than 10,000. The speech begins with "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,"

Saint Crispin's Day Speech

500

King of Ithaca and one of the Greek leaders during the Trojan War who proposed the idea of the Trojan Horse. His ten-year journey home from the war is the subject of Homer’s Odyssey.

Odysseus 

500

This man claimed to have killed 30 people before he was arrested in 1977.  He escaped police custody twice, the second time killing 3 more people before be recaptured.  He was executed in 1989. 

Ted Bundy

500

This man was shot 22 times by three members of the Nation of Islam on February 21, 1965.  

Malcom X 

500

This game's story concerns John Marston, an ex-outlaw whose family is held ransom by the government to force John to track down his old gang. A key component of the game is quickdraw duels, which are aided by “Dead Eye,” an ability that slows down time.

Red Dead Redemption

500

After the death of his wife, this character expresses his annoyance by stating "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day"

Macbeth