Rejuvenation Allusions, Definition, Citation, Reference, Information - Allusion to Rejuvenation
- Aeson in extreme old age, restored to youth by Medea. [Rom. Myth.: LLEI, I: 322]
- apples of perpetual youth by tasting the golden apples kept by Idhunn, the gods preserved their youth. [Scand. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 41]
- Bimini Bahamas island whose fountain conferred eternal youth. [Western Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 373]
- Dithyrambus epithet of Dionysus, in allusion to his double birth. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 88]
- Faust rejuvenated by Mephistopheles at the price of his soul. [Ger. Lit.: Goethe Faust]
- Fountain of Youth fabulous fountain believed to restore youth to the aged. [Western Folklore: Brewer Handbook, 389]
- Heidegger, Dr. gives his aged friends water drawn from the Fountain of Youth, but its effects are temporary. [Am. Lit.: Hawthorne “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” in Hart, 229]
- Ogier the Dane hero at the age of 100 restored to ripe manhood by Morgan le Fay. [Medieval Romance: Brewer Dictionary, 656]
- sage a rejuvenator; said to stop gray hair. [Herb Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 165]