ArcaMax

Knowledge

on Jun 10, 2024

Granter Of Immortality
And His Fantastic Creature
The Man Who Played God
A Modern Prometheus

A Modern Prometheus. The subtitle of "Frankenstein" is an allusion to Prometheus, the Greek Titan who, in some versions of the myth, created man.

Literature Trivia / May 07, 2025

Krishna. Krishna had a total of 16,108 wives.

Literature Trivia / May 07, 2025

Jane Austen. Jane Austen died of bovine tuberculosis, which is drinking unpasteurized milk.

Literature Trivia / May 06, 2025

Widowmaker. Pecos Bill once grabbed a tornado, threw it down on the ground and then rode its back.

Literature Trivia / May 06, 2025

Grangerfords And Shepherdsons. In the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons have been feuding for 30 years.

Literature Trivia / May 05, 2025

Aphrodite. The Helen of "The Iliad" was the daughter of Zeus and married to King Menelaus of Sparta.

Literature Trivia / May 05, 2025

The Bad Beginning. The first book in the "A Series of Unfortunate Events" series was renamed when it went to paperback.