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* [[An Aesop]]: Greek folktales, notably [[Aesop's Fables]], have these.

* [[Age Without Youth]]: Tithonos of [[Greek Mythology]] ages forever without dying, after a botched wish. The Cumaean Sibyl is cursed with the same after spurning Apollo.

* [[Akashic Records]]: A repository of ultimate knowledge on another plane of existence. In other words, The Internet! The name comes from Sanskrit, and the concept originates in the Samkhya philosophies, which were first recorded around 200 CE.

* [[Alcohol Hic]]: Afflicts [[Aristophanes]] in Plato's ''Symposium''.

* [[Comforting the Widow]]: The Widow of Ephesus story in ''Satyricon''.

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: [[The Bible|The Apostles]] of all people, when they [[Sidetracked by the Analogy|took a parable too literally]]:

'''Apostles:''' He's upset that we didn't bring any bread! }}

* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: In addition to [[Cold-Blooded Torture|physical tortures]], [[Greek Mythology]] features a variety of less physical tortures such as those inflicted upon Tantalos and Sisyphos (in ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'') and Atlas (in ''[[Theogony]]''). The biblical Cain's punishment for killing his brother was to be shunned by all people for the rest of his life.

* [[Merlin Sickness]]: The fruit on Anostus causes this in the Roman ''Varia Historia'', by Claudius Aelianus.

* [[Miles Gloriosus]]: The play of that name is the [[Trope Namer]], but ''[[The Iliad]]'s'' [[Trope Maker|Paris]] beat him to it.

* [[Modesty Bedsheet]]: Believe it or not, there are numerous Roman wall paintings depicting couples during sex—with the woman wearing a brasserie, because it would've been considered lascivious for her to show her breasts. To her own husband. During sex.

* [[Monkey Morality Pose]]: Dates back to the days of Confucius.