This week, Di has gone all classical on us. As one who, by virtue of having obtained a Latin ‘O’ level in 1968, and therefore being rightfully able to lay claim to a classical education, this is right up my street (or should that be via strata?).
Anyway, Di’s given us ten names from classical antiquity and asked us to tell everyone who they are.
Perseus
A partially dyslexic superhero.
Ares
Another dyslexic ancient: this one had no end of trouble in distinguishing his elbow.
Achilles
Briefly worked as a backing musician on Bob Dylan’s ‘Blonde on Blonde’ album
Poseidon
A famous Athenian artists’ model, best known for sitting for life classes naked apart from his name tag.
Medusa
Bit of a stone faced woman, on reflection.
Athena
The poster girl of the Aegean.
Hades
Be careful with this one, or he’ll give you hell.
Apollo
Famous theatre near the Parthenon, where up-and-coming stand-up comedians go to die on their Ares.
Cronos
Sorry, no time to answer this one.
Hermes
Spartan parcel delivery driver, so incompetent he had to keep changing his name, to no discernible effect.
the only deadhead in the hameau 
haha. These are great and we had a similar train of thought on Ares. Thanks for joining in.
Wow. O level in Latin! Were you going on to study medicine?
Medicine? Never – far too squeamish. No, I went to a (very) minor public school and we all did 8 O levels: English, French, Latin, History, Geography, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Jack of all trades and master of none (especially not the sciences!)
Ah. I see. We only did Latin the first year of Grammar School. That was enough as it was all Amo, amas amant, no mythology like I’d hoped.