Tuesday, November 12, 2024

12.11.24: When the Fates decide your time is up …

The details can vary, some are myth, and some may be exaggerated, but they all make for riveting narrative. Here are some real and mythological figures from Ancient Rome and Greece. Can you match up their names with what the Fates had in store for them? having seen some images of lamprey eels, I can only hope that the story isn’t true!

  1. Arachne
  2. Augustus
  3. Caligula
  4. Cicero
  5. Claudius
  6. Hyacinthus
  7. Julius Caesar
  8. Lucretia
  9. Medusa
  10. Murderers and traitors
  11. Pliny the Elder
  12. Polyphemus
  13. Remus
  14. the slaves of Publius Pollio
  15. the sons of Laocoon

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assassinated by the Praetorian guard

beheaded by Perseus

blinded

blow to the head from a discus

fed to lamprey eels

fratricide

head and hands hacked off; tongue pierced with a hairpin

killed by sea serpents

natural causes

poisoned mushrooms

stabbed 23 times

suffocation from volcanic ash

suicide

thrown from the Tarpeian rock

turned into a spider














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