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!
- Arachne
- Augustus
- Caligula
- Cicero
- Claudius
- Hyacinthus
- Julius Caesar
- Lucretia
- Medusa
- Murderers and traitors
- Pliny the Elder
- Polyphemus
- Remus
- the slaves of Publius Pollio
- the sons of Laocoon
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
