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.
Mythology References
- Zeus 1.26
- Ulysses 5.1
- Hephaestus 5.18
- Sinbad 5.30
- Achilles 6.52
- Aeneas 7.80
- Medea 8.57
- Troy 8.138
- Paris 15.15
- Helen 15.15
- Prometheus 15.16
- Circe 16.74
- Osiris 22.50
- King Arthur 22.52
Biblical References
- The Bible 5.11
- Solomon 5.27
- David 8.74
- Moses 9.7
- Jesus Christ 9.36
- Balaam (the diviner in the Torah, not the garden in Final Fantasy VIII) 11.113
- Jonah 12.64
- The Tower of Babel 13.169
- Noah 15.30
- Elijah 15.30
- Cain 15.40
- The New Testament 18.86
- St. John 20.62
- Herod 20.62
Literary and Philosophical References
- Niccolò Machiavelli 1.3
- Anna Karenina 1.27
- Eugene Onegin 1.27
- Natty Bumppo (character in Leatherstocking Tales novels) 1.29
- Quentin Durward 1.29
- The Iliad 2.51
- William Shakespeare 5.11
- Aristotle 5.43
- Robinson Crusoe 6.2
- The Voyage of the Beagle 6.20
- Friedrich Nietzsche 11.16
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 11.16
- John Calhoun 11.16
- Espirit des Lois 11.17
- Macbeth 11.118
- Lucretius 11.135
- Baruch Spinoza 12.110
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 15.10
- Karl Marx 15.10
- Mikhail Lermontov, "The Eagle" 15.30
- The City of the Sun 18.83
- Utopia 16.83
- Discourses (Machiavelli) 16.83
- The Prince 16.83
- Friedrich Engels 16.83
- Auguste Comte 16.83
- François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld 20.36
- Denis Diderot 20.36
- Nicolas Chamfort 20.36
- Søren Kierkegaard 21.89
- Thomas Aquinas 21.113
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 21.113
- Lucius Seneca 21.117
- Plato 21.154
- John Locke 21.54
- "Ozymandias" 22.17
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 23.1
- La Comédie humaine, Balzac 24.12
- The Divine Comedy 24.35
- Thucydides 25.11
Historical References
- George III 1.4
- Napoleon Bonaparte 1.5
- Frederick the Great 1.5
- George Rogers Clark 1.29
- Marcus Cato 2.28
- Georges Danton 3.6
- Chevalier de Bayard 3.6
- Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus 3.6
- Julius Rosenwald 3.35
- Nero 3.42
- John Dingbat O'Berta 5.3
- Henry V 5.12
- Alcibiades 5.26
- Socrates 5.26
- Henry Ward Beecher 5.26
- Teddy Roosevelt 5.30
- Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni 5.43
- Christopher Wren 5.43
- Marcus Tullius Cicero 5.43
- Al Capone 5.43
- Sir Cedric Hardwicke 5.45
- Croesus 7.1
- Phidias 8.54
- Sandro Botticelli 8.54
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rij 8.62
- Plutarch 11.12
- Alexander 11.112
- Commodus 11.114
- Xerxes 13.20
- Constantine 13.20
- Guy Fawkes 13.38
- Stonewall Jackson 13.169
- Charlemagne 15.2
- Edward of Woodstock, (Black Prince) 15.32
- Emperor Gaius (Caligula) 15.36 (and every time the Thea's eagle is mentioned by name)
- Atilla 16.20
- Ethelred the Unready 16.38
- Leon Trotsky 17.73 (and elsewhere as Augie sees him from a distance)
- Ulysses S. Grant 20.34
- Anne Geneviève de Bourbon (Duchesse de Longueville) 20.36
- Mahatma Gandhi 20.47
- Prince Albert 20.47
- Marcus Licinius Crassus 21.91
- John Dillinger 22.61
- Basil Banghart 22.61
- Tommy O'Connors 22.61
- Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown (Three-Finger Brown) 24.4
- John Factor (Jake the Barber) 24.4
- Basil Zaharoff 24.4
- Ivar Kreuger (The Swedish Match King) 24.4
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 24.8
- Vladimir Lenin 25.13
- Oliver Cromwell 15.13
- Franz Joseph Haydn 26.13
- Christopher Columbus 26.180
Pop Culture References
- It Can Be Done 5.30
- Ramon Navarro 16.54
- Sherlock Holmes 25.130