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The Oxford dictionary of allusions
2003, Oxford University Press
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The Oxford dictionary of allusions
2001, Oxford University Press
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Includes index.
LIST OF THEMES:
Abundance and plenty -- Actors -- Adultery -- Adventure -- Ambition -- Anger -- Animals, love of -- Appearing -- Arrogance and pomposity -- Artists -- Ascent and descent -- Avarice --
Baldness -- Bargain -- Beauty : female beauty -- Beauty : male beauty -- Betrayal -- Blindness --
Captives -- Change -- Chaos and disorder -- Chastity and virginity -- Comedy and humour -- Communication -- Complexity -- Concealment -- Conflict -- Conformity -- Courage -- Cowardice -- Craftsmen -- Criminals -- Cunning -- Curse --
Dancing -- Danger -- Darkness -- Death -- Defeat -- Departure -- Deserted places -- Despair -- Destiny and luck -- Destruction -- Detectives -- Devil -- Dictators and tyrants -- Difficulty -- Disappearance and absence -- Disapproval -- Disclosure -- Disguise -- Distance -- Doubt -- Dreams -- Duality --
Enemy -- Envy -- Escape and survival -- Evil -- Explorers --
Failure -- Fatness -- Fear -- Fertility -- Fierce women -- Food and drink -- Forgiveness -- Freedom -- Friendship --
Generosity -- Gesture -- Gluttony -- Goodness -- Grief and sorrow -- Guarding -- Guilt --
Hair -- Happiness -- Hatred -- Height -- Heroes -- Honesty and truth -- Horror -- Horses -- Humility -- Hunters -- Hypocrisy --
Idealism -- Idyllic Places -- Illusion -- Immobility -- Importance -- Indifference -- Innocence -- Insanity -- Inspiration -- Intelligence -- Invisibility -- Jealousy -- Judgement and decision --
Knowledge -- Lack of change -- Large size -- Leaders -- Life : generation of life -- Light -- Love and marriage -- Lovers -- Lying --
Macho men -- Magic -- Medicine -- Memory -- Messengers -- Mischief -- Miserliness -- Modernity -- Monsters -- Moustaches -- Movement -- Murderers -- Music -- Mystery --
Naivety -- Nakedness -- Nonconformity -- Noses -- Old age -- Optimism -- Oratory -- Outdatedness -- Outlaws --
Past -- Patience -- Peace -- Perseverance -- Pessimism -- Poverty -- Power -- Pride -- Prisons -- Problem -- Prophecy -- Prostitutes -- Punishment --
Quest -- Realization -- Rebellion and disobedience -- Rebirth and resurrection -- Rescue -- Returning -- Revenge -- Ruthlessness --
Safety -- Sculptors -- Seducers and male lovers -- Sex and sexuality -- Silence -- Similarity -- Sirens -- Sleep -- Small size -- Smiles -- Soldiers -- Solitude -- Sound -- Speech -- Speed -- Sternness -- Storytellers -- Strangeness -- Strength -- Struggle -- Stupidity -- Success -- Suffering -- Superiority --
Teachers -- Temperature -- Temptation -- Thinness -- Thrift -- Time -- Travellers and wanderers -- Ugliness -- Unpleasant or wicked places --
Vanity -- Victory -- Walk -- War -- Water -- Weakness -- Wealth -- Wholesomeness -- Wisdom -- Writers -- Youth.
Special entries . Achilles -- Adam and Eve -- Alice in Wonderland -- Apollo -- Cain -- Cinderella -- David -- Dionysus -- Don Quixote -- Gulliver’s travels -- Hades -- Hercules --Jason and the Argonauts -- Jesus -- Joseph -- Moses and the Book of Exodus -- Noah and the flood -- Odysseus -- Prometheus -- Samson -- Trojan war.
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