What are some Mythological allusions in Entertainment, TV, sports ect. and Fashion?

Question

This is for an English project Plus, could you explain the allusion

Answer 1

Oh, I'm not gonna spend much time on this.

But here's a good one (high grades, too)--Pygmalion (also look under Galatea and Aphrodite) and the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (musical--My Fair Lady.)

My Greek/Latin mythology textbook had a section on this. Really, track one down and look it up. It's not that hard once you learn how to spot a classical allusion.

Answer 2

Mercury=Cars=God of Speed/Running Tennesse Titans=NFL

Answer 3

Achilles' heel - today, one spot that is most vulnerable; one weakness a person may have. Achilles was invulnerable except for his heel (achilles tendon).

Utopia - an imaginary and perfect society; British 1610, source Thomas More's novel Utopia

Phoenix - a symbol of immortality or rebirth; named after the Egyptian Mythology phoenix, a long bird which lived in the Arabian desert and then consumed itself in fire, rising renewed from the flame to start another long life.

Mentor - a trusted counselor or guide; from Mentor, a friend of Odysseus' son, who was entrusted with his education

Berserk - destructively or frenetically violent, mental or emotional upset; a warrior clothed in bear skin who worked himself into a frenzy before battle

Sardonic - bitterly ironical, sarcastic, sneering; from a Sardinian plant said to bring on fits of laughter

Psyche - the human soul, self, the mind; named after Psyche, a maiden who, after undergoing many hardships due to Aphrodite’s jealousy, reunited with Cupid and was made immortal by Jupiter; she personifies the soul joined to the heart of love.

Neptune - the sea personified; the Roman god associated with Poseidon, god of the water and oceans.

Nemesis - just punishment, one who inflicts due punishment; goddess who punishes crime; but more often she is the power charged with curbing all excess, such as excessive good fortune or arrogant p ride.

Niobe - mournful woman; from Niobe, whose children were slain by Apollo and Artemis because of her bragging; the gods pitied her and turned her into a rock that was always wet from weeping
Music and art

CAKE LYRICS
"When You Sleep"
now zeus was a womanizer
always on the make
but hera usually punished her that zeus was one to take

ELTON JOHN LYRICS
"Hercules"
Ooh she got Hercules on her side
And Diana in her eyes

INME LYRICS
"Neptune"
Neptune in the sea

10 YEARS LYRICS
"Through The Iris"
Two circular hues of blue with a gray shade
So captivating
More than you know

Bonnie Raitt
‘Spit Of Love’
green-eyed jackal's\... it's a rage as old as Hades
That'll sputter on these coals
I'm callin on the Furies
The green eyed jackel is a part of egyption mythology, it plays a simiulrl roal as the furies in greek mythology in the fact that they sought out those thet spilt kindred blood and killed them.

MARY J BLIGE LYRICS
"Beautiful (Black Star Remix)"
The tender kiss that whets my appetite
My mighty Aphrodite, the flame that ignite me
Your name just excite me
Aphrodite was the greek goddess of love

RANCID LYRICS
"Loki"
Set out to mislead
Sets out to murder
False appearance is everything to him
Is he good today, or is he evil
In a violent crazy spewing words of madness
It can go either way you never know
Conditioned to deceived and that's how he likes it
With all the guns going off who can say no to the guy
Who watch out, who's ******* nuts
'Cause Loki's playing tricks again
Loki's playing tricks again
Loki's playing tricks again
Loki's playing tricks again
Loki Laufeyjarson is the mythical being of mischief in Norse mythology, a son of the giants Fárbauti and Laufey, and foster-brother of Odin.

INDIGO GIRLS LYRICS
"Hammer And A Nail"
I see my face on the surface
I look a lot like narcissus
A dark abyss of an emptiness

TEA PARTY LYRICS
"Lullaby"
because your sleeping tonight
sleeping tonight
safe in the arms of morpheus

DAVID BOWIE LYRICS
"Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed"
Of the Great Utopia Dream
And you're the gleam
In the depths

GREEN DAY LYRICS
"Jinx"
You finally met you nemesis.

Vocabulary and names

Erotic means, of or having to do with sexual passion or love It comes from Greek god of love, Eros

Stygian - dark and gloomy; named after the river Styx, a river in the Underworld. The water is poisonous for human and cattle and said to break iron, metal and pottery, though it is said a horse's hoof is unharmed by it.

Tantalize - from King Tantalus, who reigned on Mt. Sipylus and was condemned to reside in a beautiful river with sumptuous fruits just out of reach and the water undrinkable, always tempting him as punishment
for excessive pride (he boiled his son and fed the broth to trick the gods).

Titanic - large, grand, enormous; after Tityus, a giant, the son of Zeus and Elara. His body covers over two acres. Or after the Titans, the offspring of Chronus and Rhea, who went to war against Zeus and the other Olympian gods.

Volcanoes - originated from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, whose forge is said to be under mountains

Vulcanize - to treat rubber with sulfur to increase strength and elasticity; from the Roman God of Fore and Metallurgy, Vulcan/Hephaestus

Canopy - an overhanging protection or shelter, to cover or hover above; Middle English word canape taken from Latin Canapeum or Conopeum, meaning "net curtains"

Laconic - using or marked by the use of few words, brief; Lakonikos, from the reputation of the Spartans for brevity of speech

Limerick - a humorous or nonsense verse of five lines; from Limerick, a county in Republic of Ireland where the form is said to have originated

Spartan - frugal and bare, simple, disciplined and stern and brave; having to do with Sparta, an important City in Greece. The Spartans were known for simplicity of life, severity, courage, and brevity of speech.

Chimera - a horrible creature of the imagination, an absurd or impossible idea; wild fancy; a monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail, supposed to breathe out fire a monster in ff

Furor - (Latin- furere to rage) wild enthusiasm or excitement, rage; fury, "run like fury"; any one of the three Furies

Television and movies
Morephius is one of the main charecters in matrix

Homer: No one in history has ever done anything this clever!
On the plan to get back Springfield's Lemon Tree, stolen by Shelbyville, by parking the van illegally, so it is towed into the parking lot where the tree is kept, from which they all sneak out at night. (À la the Trojan War.)
Episode: 2F22 Lemon of Troy

Lisa: Oedipus is the one who killed his father and married his mother
Homer: Argh! who paid for that wedding?
Episode: Simpsons play tennis with the pros

MIDGAR
Midgar, the monstrous metropolis In which the game final fantasy VII begins, is derived from Norse mythology's Midgard. Midgard is” the abode of mankind" (source); it literally means "middle garden", referring to its position between the world of the gods (Asgard) and that of the dead (Niffleheim). In the game, Midgar is the embodiment of the corrupt desire for materialistic wealth over morals--a desire that mankind comes to be associated with throughout the game. Therefore, the city serves as both a symbolic and literal "abode of mankind".

RAGNAROK
In Norse mythology, the Gods and the Giants came together in one final colossal battle: the Ragnarok, or "End of the World". Few emerged unscathed-- if they emerged at all -- and all the land was submersed in the great ocean in order to resurface and start anew. The Ragnarok is also the name of one of Cloud's more powerful weapons, and, to be entirely honest, I don't think there's much logic behind the name other than it just sounds cool and destructive. It does, however, continue the theme of Norse mythology tied to Cloud's character, making me wonder if there's something else to be taken from this allusion that I'm missing.

Science

Νν (Nu)
ν represents:
Frequency in physics

Ξξ (Xi)
ξ represents a random variable.

Οο (Omicron)
The big O notation apparently uses a capital Omicron, not a capital O.

Ππ (Pi)
Π is the product operator in mathematics.
π represents:
Archimedes' constant, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
the prime counting function
profit in microeconomics and game theory
inflation in macroeconomics, expressed as a constant with respects to time
the state distribution of a Markov chain
a type of covalent bond in Chemistry (Pi bond)

Ρρ (Rho)
ρ represents:
the radius in a polar coordinate system
the correlation coefficient in statistics
the sensitivity to interest rate in mathematical finance
the density in physics

Σσ (Sigma)
Σ is the summation operator.
σ sigma represents:
the divisor function in number theory
the population standard deviation or spread in probability and statistics
a type of covalent bond in Chemistry (sigma bond)

Ττ (Tau)
τ represents:
a correlation coefficient — see Kendall's tau
a (small) interval of time

Υυ (Upsilon)

Φφ (Phi)
φ represents:
the golden ratio 1.618... in mathematics, art, and architecture
Euler's totient function in number theory
the argument of a complex number in mathematics
the value of a plane angle in physics and mathematics
the angle to the z axis in spherical coordinates

Χχ (Chi)
χ represents:
the chi distribution in statistics (X2 is the more frequently encountered chi-square distribution)
the chromatic number of a graph in graph theory
the Euler characteristic in algebraic topology
commonly used as a variable in algebraic equations

Ψψ (Psi)
ψ represents the wavefunction in the Schrödinger equation of quantum mechanics.

Ωω (Omega)
Ω represents:
the Omega constant
an asymptotic lower bound related to Big O notation
in probability theory and statistical mechanics, the set of possible distinct system states
the SI unit measure of electric resistance, the ohm
ω represents:
the first infinite ordinal
an asymptotically dominant quantity related to Big O notation
in probability theory, a possible outcome of an experiment
angular velocity / radian frequency
a complex cube root of unity - the other is ω2