Mythological Allusions in A Tale of Two Cities

 *Book II Chapter 9 -- The Gorgon's Head 

        "A stony business altogether, with heavy stone balustrades, and stone urns, and stone flowers, and stone faces of men, and stone heads of lions, in all directions.  As if the Gorgon's head had surveyed it, when it was finished, two centuries ago."

        "The Gorgon had surveyed the building again in the night, and had added the one stone face wanting; the stone face for which it had waited through about two hundred years."

    *Book II Chapter 22 -- The Sea Still Rises

        "The Vengeance, uttering terrific shrieks, and flinging her arms about her head like all the forty Furies at once, was tearing from house to house, rousing the women."

    *Book III Chapter 4 -- Calm in Storm

        "three hundred thousand men, summoned to rise against the tyrants of the earth, rose from all the varying soils of France, as if the dragon's teeth had been sown broadcast, and had yielded fruit equally on hill and plain, on rock, in gravel, and alluvial mud..."