Moby Dick Allusions
Chapter 1
Ishmael
1) Biblical--son of Abraham; an exile.
2) Ishmael ben Elisha--2nd century A.D. Jewish teacher of Galilee; outstanding Talmudic teacher;
compiled the 13 hermeneutical rules for interpreting the Torah; founded a school which produced the legal commentary, Mekhilta.
Cato
A Shakespearean character in Julius Caesar; committed suicide by falling on his sword.
Seneca and the Stoics
Seneca--among Rome's leading intellectual figures in the mid-1st century AD. He and Epictetus were leading voices of Stoicism.
Stoics--1) Greek school of philosophy holding that human beings should be free from passion and calmly accept all occurrences as the unavoidable result of divine will.
Narcissus
Greek mythology--young man who fell in love with his own image in a pool of water and either wasted away or fell into the pool and drowned.
Fates
1) Greek mythology--the three goddesses who govern human destiny. While one sister dictates the events of an individual's......
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