English+EIV-H+Allusions+Tagtmeir

=**ALLUSIONS PROJECT**=

**RESEARCH TOPICS:**
 * 1) Ancient Egyptian (Creation Myths, Heaven/Afterworld, Savior/Redeemer/God Figure)
 * 2) Hindu (Savior/Redeemer/God Figure)
 * 3) Buddhist
 * 4) Classical Greek (Creation Myths, Heaven/Afterworld, Savior/Redeemer/God Figure, Gaia/Uranus/Titans, Pygmalion/Galatea, Persephone/Demeter/Hades, Pandora, Medea/Jason/Golden Fleece, Scylla/Charybdis, the Fates, the Muses, the Furies, Sisyphus, Achilles, Midas, Helen of Troy)
 * 5) Classical Rome (Creation Myths, Heaven/Afterworld, Savior/Redeemer/God Figure, Venus/Adonis, Hercules)
 * 6) African (Creation Myths, Heaven/Afterworld, Savior/Redeemer/God Figure)
 * 7) Old Testament (Cane/Abel, Abraham/Isaac, Moses, Lot, Noah, Job, Solomon, David/Bathsheba/Absalom, Samson/Delilah, Tower of Babel, as viewed by one of these religious branches who use it: Muslims, Jews, Christians)
 * 8) New Testament (John the Baptist, Prodigal Son, Sermon on the Mount, Good Samaritan, Judas, Garden of Gethsemane, Savior/Redeemer/God Figure, as viewed by Catholic or Protestant denomination)
 * 9) Saints & other religious ideas (Lucifer/Beelzebub/Satan, Seven Deadly Sins, Heaven / Afterworld)
 * 10) Celtic (Creation Myths, Heaven/Afterworld, Savior/Redeemer/God Figure)
 * 11) Norse/Germanic (Creation Myths, Heaven/Afterworld, Savior/Redeemer/God Figure)
 * 12) Middle or Far Eastern (Creation Myths, Heaven/Afterworld, Savior/Redeemer/God Figure)
 * 13) Black American
 * 14) Miscellaneous (King Arthur, Shakespearean, Dante/Inferno, Don Quixote, Casanova, Napoleon)

RESOURCES:
**DATABASES** (//see// Leyden Libraries Website) See Media and Movies Link on the library menu bar. Sign in with your student e-mail address as your username and your locker combination as your password. **//Biblical Allusions //**
 * Gale Virtual Reference Library
 * World History in Context
 * Image Quest Online (images)
 * **DISCOVERY EDUCATION ** (Media & Movies)
 * WEB RESOURCES**
 * //[|Christian Ethereal Library] //
 * //[|Jewish Encyclopedia] //
 * //Guttenberg Project //

//Poetry//

 * [|Allusion in Poetry] "//"A literary allusion is an explicit or implicit reference to another literary text that can be recognized and understood as such by competent readers." //

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