GLOSSARY
A guide for the terms that you will encounter along the poems.
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Greek Mythology
Achilles - a hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors
Adonis - a youth of remarkable beauty, the mortal love of the goddess Aphrodite
Apollo - god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more
Ares - god of courage and war
Artemis - goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation and chastity and childbirth
Atlantis - a fictional lost island that is often depicted as an advanced and utopic empire
Dionysus - god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness, and wild frenzy
Echo - an Oread (a nymph) who resided on Mount Cithaeron and fell in love with Narcissus
Eurydice - wife to Orpheus, the one who attempted to bring her back from the dead with his enchanting music
Fountain of Youth - a mythical spring where the youth of whoever drinks or bathes in its waters will be restored
Hades - god of the dead and the king of the underworld; husband to Persephone
Helios - the sun god, sometimes called a Titan
Icarus - one of the most tragic figures in Greek mythology; they - Icarus and his notable master craftsman father who is the creator of the Labyrinth, Daedalus - endeavored to escape from Crete using wings that Daedalus constructed from feathers and wax
Pandora's Box - a Greek artifact; curiosity led Pandora to open a container left in the care of her husband, thus releasing physical and emotional curses upon mankind
Medusa - one of the three Gorgons (winged human females with alive and venomous snakes as their hair); anyone who meets her eyes turns into stone
Midas - a king known for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold
Narcissus - a hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia who was known for his beauty; he rejected all romantic advances, eventually falling in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, staring at it for the remainder of his life
Necklace of Harmonia - a cursed object that brought great misfortune to most of its wearers, yet it also has the power to provide eternal beauty
Orpheus - husband to Eurydice; a musician, poet, and prophet
Persephone - goddess of spring growth; the queen of the underworld
Poseidon - god of the sea (and of water generally), earthquakes, and horses
Trojan Horse - this refers to a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks, during the Trojan War, to enter the city of Troy and win the war
Tunic of Nessus - the poisoned shirt that killed the demigod Heracles
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Norse Mythology
Heimdall - god of foresight; the one who keeps an eye for invaders
Loki - a cunning trickster who had the ability to change his shape and sex
Thor - god of thunder, sky, and agriculture
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Roman Mythology
Luna - the divine embodiment of the moon
Sol - a god and the personification of the Sun
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Egyptian Mythology
Pyramids - ancient masonry structures located in Egypt, associated with the realm of the dead gods, goddesses, and pharaohs
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PoetryIn veiled pages, goes a million wrecked words attempting to burst out of the book we once wrote in the wondrous shelter of our love, of our supposed tomorrow together. Still, piece by piece, you disentangled while I am torn with the rest of your rem...
