When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Myths and Classical References
- Myth of Manco Capac (1,1)
- Myth of Endymion (2, 17)
- Seneca (9, 41)
- Tacitus (5, 9) (9, 42)
- Ovid (5, 18)
- Horace (5, 18)
- Anacreon (5, 18)
- Aeschylus (5, 18)
- Thucydides (5, 18)
- Juvenal (5, 18)
- Lucian (5, 18)
- Medea (16, 11)
- Virgil, Aeneid (16, 65)
- Myth of Titan (17, 9)
- Cassandra (17, 9)
- Diogenes (24, 55)
- Alexander the Great (26, 4)
- Julian in Gaul (26, 4)
- Thersites (42, 11)
- Agamemnon (42, 11)
Shakespeare and Other Medieval and Early Modern Literary References
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (2, 28)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (3, 22)
- Goneril in King Lear (12, 2)
- Timon of Athens (24, 55)
- Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel (24, 31)
- Hamlet (30, 27)
- A Winter's Tale (30, 39)
- As You Like It (41, 14)
Biblical and Religious References
- 1 Corinthians 13 (1, throughout) (8, 3; 23)
- Genesis (6, 49)
- Exodus (16, 10) (26, 4)
- Solomon (16, 11)
- St. Augustine, Confessions (22, 90)
- Quran (24, 32)
- St. Paul (29, 48)
- Noah (30,1)
- Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach, Apocrypha (43, 44) (45, 14)
17-18th Century Scientists and Thinkers References
- Sir Francis Bacon, invented scientific method (9, 54) (24, 31)
- Sir Humphry Davy, chemist (13, 1)
- David Hume (24, 31)