For your blog assignment, you must choose 4 mythological characters that are referenced in the play and for each one provide some information regarding the meaning of the reference and the significance and history of the character. You must write 50-100 words on each character you choose, so you may have to do some additional research.
Cupid- He is the son of Venus, and the god of love. He is known as a young man that loves jokes and shooting people with his arrows that are either gold tipped or lead tipped. When shot with the gold end, the person that has been shot falls madly in love with the next person he/she sees. On the other hand, the lead tip of the arrow will cause aversion. Cupid sometimes has a blindfold over his eyes to signify that love is blind.
Neptune- In Roman mythology, Neptune is the god of the sea. In Greek mythology, Poseidon is very close to Neptune, but they are not identical. Neptune was also sometimes praised for the god of horses. The planet Neptune is named after the Roman god, because of the planets' blue coloring. Neptune is the god of salt and fresh water seas.
Aurora- Aurora is the Roman goddess of the dawn. Every morning, she is said to fly across the sky to signal that the sun is coming. She is brother of the Sun god, Sol, and sister of the moon god, Luna. The four winds are her children. Apparently she fell in love with a mortal man, Tithonus. Wanting to be with him forever, she asked Zeus to make him immortal. Unfortunately, she did not ask Zeus to grant him enternal youth, and when Tithonus was for an old man, she turned him into a grasshopper.
Fates- The Fates are three women, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. They are the daughters of Zeus and Themis. The three sisters are in chatrge of the lives of the mortals. Clotho spins the thread of life, Lachesis determines how long the thread will be, that is, how long the person will live, and the last sister, Atropos, cuts the string, ending the life of whoever the string belonged to. They are described to be three old, unfeeling hags
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