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54 Cards in this Set
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Who does Jupiter "resign his love" according to Catullus? |
Peleus |
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Why does Catullus mention the Argonauts when narrating the marriage of Peleus & Thetis? |
Peleus fell in love with Thetis while sailing on the Argo |
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What does the Parcae prophesy for the child of Peleus & Thetis? |
Honored in death fight at try kill many men in battle free from fear |
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What do the Parcae mean when they say "Scamander's wave shall witness to his great virtues?" |
Achilles will battle bravely at Troy |
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Where is the marriage between Peleus & Thetis? |
Thessaly |
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Catullus - which god bears marks of his former punishment when he arrives to honor peleus & Thetis? |
Prometheus |
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Who brings 'woodland gifts' to Peleus & Thetis? |
Chiron |
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Who is Thetis' grandmother? |
Tethys |
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The Argonauts hope to take the golden fleece from? |
The Colchians |
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Euripedes' Andromache - who does the chorus refer to as "She who gave birth to this evil?" |
Hecuba |
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What does the Chorus mean when they say "for then the women of Troy would never have been harnessed to slavery's yoke" |
If Hecuba had killed Paris at birth, the Trojand would not have been conquered |
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Who brings the three Goddess' to Paris for him to Judge? |
Hermes |
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Who did NOT have a hand in the abductions of Greek and Asian princesses? |
Zeus |
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Where does Lo eventually end up? |
Egypt |
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Who is the daughter of the king of Tyre (who the Greeks abducted) |
Europa |
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Why did Lo leave Argos - accordig to the Phoenicians |
She was abducted |
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Who is the daugher of the king of Argos (who the Phoenicians abduct) |
Lo |
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Why do the Greeks bear the responsibility for the conflict between Greece & Asia? (According to the persians) |
They launch a military expedition over the abduction of Helen |
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Who is inspired by the stories of the previous abductions to obtain a wife in Greece? (according to Herodotus) |
Paris |
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Who is the daughter of the king of Colchis? |
Madea |
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What is Herodotus' native city? |
Halicarnassus |
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Whom do the "learned Persians" blame for initiating the exchange of abductions between Greece & Asia? |
The Phoenicians |
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Why has Menelaus come to Egypt in Euripedes' Helen? |
He washed ashore after a shipwreck |
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Who constructed Helen's phantom? |
Hera |
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Why doesn't Menelaus believe that Helen is his wife when he first sees her? |
Because he thinks that a phantom is Helen |
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Who is Tyandareus? |
Leda's mortal husband, the foster father of Helen |
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How does Menelaus finally recognize the true Helen? |
He learns that the phantom disappeared |
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What good news does Helen receive from the Egyptian Prophetess? |
Her husbamd is still alive |
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Why is Helen in Peril? |
the Egyptian King wants to marry her |
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Why does Achilles not kill Agamemnon? |
Athena stops him |
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What are in the two jars of Zeus? (according to Achilles) |
Good things & evil things |
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Who was Achiles friend that Hector killed? |
Patroclus |
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What fate awaits achilles if he chooses to avenge the death of Patroclus? |
to die young, but gain eternal glory |
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How does achilles demonstrate his anger towards Agamemnon? |
He refuses to fight |
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What does calchas say to the Army in the beginning of Homer's iliad? |
That Apollo is angry that Agamemnon dishonered his priest |
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Who is Chryses? |
The priest of Apollo who asks for the return of his daughter |
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Why does Priam travel to Achilles' tent at the end of the Iliad |
To ransom the body of his son |
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Why is Ulysses' suspecious of Achilles' performance during the dance in Statius' achilleid? |
He isn't very good |
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Who is the King of Scyros? |
Lycomedes |
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Achilles tells Lycomedes hat his actions at Troy will bring honor to who? |
Lycomedes, Achilles, & Chiron |
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The girls on Scyros perform dances in the style of which other islands? |
Samothrace & Crete |
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What causes Achilles to drop the shield & spear? |
Hearing the cry of Deidamia |
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Achilles' dancing is likened to he behavior of what Theban King? |
Pentheus |
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What is the name of the Scyrian princess Achilles loves? |
Deidamia |
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Who is Achilles' father? |
Peleus |
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Who is Achilles' mother? |
Thetis |
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Who is Hecuba's son? |
Paris |
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What did Ulysses & Diomedes steal from Troy? |
The Palladium, a statue or Minerva |
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How does Pyrrhus respond to Priam's charge that he is unworthy of his father? |
He tells priam to tell him that himself in the underworld |
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Why is Sinon hostile to the other greeks? |
They planned to sacrifice him to Apollo |
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Why does Sinon say that the greeks built the horse? |
As an offering to Minerca (Athena) |
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What lies at the center of Priam's palace? |
A large altar under a laurel tree |
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Sinon claims to be a kinsman of what greek leader? |
Palamedes |
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Whom does Pyrrhus kill in front of his parents? |
Polites |
