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* [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]: Agamemnon and Clytemnestra didn't wait during the Trojan War, nor remain faithful. Clytemnestra did have a reason, though.
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Common in [[Classical Mythology]]. Ouranos and Cronos both imprisoned all their children at birth. Hephaestos in ''[[The Iliad]]'' tells how his father Zeus threw him off a mountain. Acrisios imprisoned his daughter Danae, then threw her into the sea when she got pregnant anyway.
* [[A Chat with Satan]]: Two such tests of character occur in ''[[The Bible]]'': The serpent's conversation with Eve, and Satan trying to tempt Jesus in the wilderness.▼
* [[Achilles' Heel]]: The [[Big Bad]] Duryodhana in the ''[[Mahabharata]]'', and Talos in [[Greek Mythology]]. Also Achilles, the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Achilles in His Tent]]: [[Homer]]'s ''[[The Iliad]]''; [[Trope Namers|Trope Namer]]
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* [[Alien Lunch]]: Atreus in [[Greek Mythology]], and his brother Thyestes.
* [[All Amazons Want Hercules]]: The [[Trope Namers|Trope Namer]] happens in a Greek myth. Also occurs in the ''[[Mahabharata]]'' with Hidimba falling for Bhima.
* [[All Crimes Are Equal]]: The [[Ancient Greece|Athenian]] Constitution of [[wikipedia:Draco (lawgiver)|Draco]], and the Chinese Legalists of the [[Dynasties From Shang to Qing|Qin Dynasty]].
* [[All for Nothing]]: Saul, David, and Solomon in ''[[The Bible]]''.
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'' contains a well known Greek story: Aphrodite, though married to the smith-god Hephaestus, much prefers the bloody war-god Ares and has a long affair.
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* [[The Chains of Commanding]]: The Sword of Damocles, described by Cicero.
* [[Changeling Fantasy]]: Many [[Half Human Hybrids]] in [[Greek Mythology]], if their father or mother was a god.
▲* [[A Chat with Satan]]: Two such tests of character occur in ''[[The Bible]]'': The serpent's conversation with Eve, and Satan trying to tempt Jesus in the wilderness.
* [[The Chessmaster]] (only the version without chess motifs): ''[[The Art of War]]'' is a good guide on how to be the Chessmaster (but inspired by [[Go]] instead).
* [[Chess with Death]]: Some Greek characters challenge gods to contests and end up dead or otherwise badly off. I.e. Marsyas (5th century BCE), Arachne (Ovid and Virgil), and Thamyris in Apollodorus and Asklepiades.
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* [[Cunning Like a Fox]]: In [[Aesop's Fables]].
* [[Cutting the Knot]]: The original Gordian Knot.
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