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* [[Literal Genie]]: In a late (Roman) myth about the Greek god Hermaphroditos, an annoying clingy girl wished she could forever be united with the uninterested deity she was harassing. Some literal-minded god fulfilled her wish ... by fusing their bodies together into one hermaphroditic person.
* [[Living MacGuffin]]: Helen of Troy from ''[[The Iliad]]''.
* [[Loads and Loads of Races]]: [[Classical Mythology]] features many races: Ordinary humans, pygmies, gods, nymphs, [[
* [[Losing Your Head]]: [[Orpheus]]'s head continued to sing after his decapitation, according to Ovid.
* [[Lost in Imitation]]: Several Greek myths are best known, and more often repeated, from a later version after a famous poet or playwright altered the contours of an earlier story. Such was apparently the case with [[Aeschylus]]'s ''[[Prometheus Bound|Prometheus]]'' and [[Euripides]]'s ''[[Medea]]''.
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