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Characters from this period are universally recognizable to viewers thanks to a dress code heavy in drape-and-cinch unpatterned linens, plus, they've all made the uncanny decision to speak with a [[British Accent]].
For further details, see the [[Classical Mythology/Characters|character sheet]].
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Greek Mythology has been very influential in literature, art, and many other things so it's named a lot of Tropes. [[Trope Namers/Oral Tradition/Classical Mythology|See the list here.]]
* [[Achilles' Heel]]
* [[Achilles in His Tent]]
* [[An Aesop]]
* [[Answering Echo]]
* [[Cassandra Truth]]
* [[Hydra Problem]]
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** Also Apollo and [[Norse Mythology|Freyr]], Hades and [[Finnish Mythology|Tuoni]] and etc.
** The weekdays Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are named after the Norse/Germanic gods Tiw, Wodan, Thor, and Freya. In the Romance languages, their names are different: For example, in Italian, they're called Martedi (Mars), Mercoledi (Mercury), Giovedi (Jove/Jupiter), and Venerdi (Venus). The implication is that Mars is equivalent to Tiw, Mercury to Wodan, Jupiter to Thor, and Venus to Freya. (Incidentally, it also means that the names of the days of the week are named after [[The Solar System|the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn]]—the seven planets of [[Western Zodiac|traditional Western astrology]].)
* [[Amazon Admirer]]: One of Heracles's twelve labors was to deliver Hippolyta's belt to the king that he served. Hippolyta was more than fine with that because she truly liked him. She handed over the belt, no argument or negotiation required. Alas, Hera intervened and staged a fight when she framed Heracles for kidnapping Hippolyta. In some versions of the myth, Heracles killed Hippolyta in the skirmish before she could defuse the situation. During others, he handed her to Theseus for safekeeping, but she married Theseus of her own volition.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Those [[Taken for Granite|unfortunate enough]] to gaze upon the face of Medusa.
** Which is where we get the word petrified
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* [[Cardboard Prison]]: Arguably, Hades.
* [[Chained to a Rock]]: Andromeda and Hesione.
* [[Chaos Entity]]:
** Chaos is the first thing that existed, and the Titans such as Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros were born from it.
** Eris is the Greek goddess of discord and strife but wasn't known to have a temple in ancient Greece; thus, often, she acts more like a personification. She is famous for initiating the Trojan War using the Apple of Discord inscribed with the phrase “To the Fairest One” for the goddesses to argue over. Paris, the prince of Troy, was chosen by Zeus to choose Helen, the wife of Menelaus of Sparta, and doomed his city, which led to its destruction.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Hera is a Jealous Wife, but rightfully so, because her job as goddess of family and marriage runs in direct opposition to her husband's ''very'' promiscuous ways. She even torments the poor girls Zeus rapes.
** Persephone turned the nymph Minthe into the mint plant as revenge for trying to sleep with her husband.
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* [[Plant Person]]: Dryads.
* [[Prophecy Twist]]: Too numerous to list.
* [[Proper Lady]]: What Hera was supposed to be, before she was flanderized into Zeus's [[
* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: Olympus is attacked more than once, and Heracles was known to get into fights with several gods.
** Gaia, mother of Earth, did it the most; first she plotted to have her husband, Ouranos, overthrown and killed by Cronus because he locked away the Gigantes, Cyclopes and Hecatonchires for their ugliness. Then, when Cronus is stupid enough to lock away the newly-freed giants after they were just freed (not to mention devour his children) she plots for Zeus to kill him. Then, as vengeance for the Olympians killing her children, the Titans (which she herself pretty much caused by the previous plot; never mind that Zeus had ''freed'' the kyklopes and hekatonkheires), she sets Typhon and the Gigantes onto the Olympians. Basically, she took offense to pretty much every generation of the gods, even when she got them into power in the first place. Brings a whole new meaning to [[Gaia's Vengeance]], doesn't it?
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* [[World's Strongest Man]]: Heracles.
** He can even lift the sky... ask Atlas...
* [[
** Hera, too. Doesn't help that her husband is none other than Zeus.
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'', ''[[The Aeneid]]''.
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