Use the passage to answer the question. Which quotation from the passage contains an allusion to Greek mythology? (1 point) Responses “. . . but a band of Puritans who watched the scene, invisible themselves, compared the masques to those devils and ruined souls with whom their superstition peopled the black wilderness.” “. . . but a band of Puritans who watched the scene, invisible themselves, compared the masques to those devils and ruined souls with whom their superstition peopled the black wilderness.” “Such were the colonists of Merry Mount as they stood in the broad smile of sunset round their venerated Maypole.” “Such were the colonists of Merry Mount as they stood in the broad smile of sunset round their venerated Maypole.” “Had a wanderer bewildered in the melancholy forest heard their mirth and stolen a half-affrighted glance, he might have fancied them the crew of Comus, some already transformed to brutes, some midway between man and beast, and the others rioting in the flow of tipsy jollity that foreran the change . . .” “Had a wanderer bewildered in the melancholy forest heard their mirth and stolen a half-affrighted glance, he might have fancied them the crew of Comus, some already transformed to brutes, some midway between man and beast, and the others rioting in the flow of tipsy jollity that foreran the change . . .” “Many of this strange company wore foolscaps and had little bells appended to their garments, tinkling with a silvery sound responsive to the inaudible music of their gleesome spirits.”

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The quotation from the passage that contains an allusion to Greek mythology is:

“Had a wanderer bewildered in the melancholy forest heard their mirth and stolen a half-affrighted glance, he might have fancied them the crew of Comus, some already transformed to brutes, some midway between man and beast, and the others rioting in the flow of tipsy jollity that foreran the change . . .”

This alludes to Comus, a figure from Greek mythology who is associated with revelry and the celebration of excess.