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Literary Mythology

Bite the Dust

Homer Iliad: ‘May his fellow warriors fall round him to the earth and bite the dust.’

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Religion

Charisma

Charisma is a religous term originating in ancient Greece. It means ‘of the gods’, ‘of the spirit’. According to the ancient Greeks, a person with charisma had ‘the spirit of the gods’ flowing through them and this was what gave them that special, magical, charismatic quality.