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What is the Iliad |
An epic about the trojan war |
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Who was Priam and who was his wife |
The king of Troy, Hecuba |
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What kind of contest did paris judge |
A beauty contest |
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Who was involved in the beauty contest |
Hera athena and aphrodite |
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What was paris given as a prize for selecting the winner of the beauty contest |
Helen of Troy |
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Why was it a problem that Paris won Helen of Troy |
Because Helen was married to Menelaus |
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Who was Menelaus |
The king of Sparta, and Helen's husband |
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What did menelaus do to retrieve his wife |
Called all the heroes in sparta |
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How long did it take for menelaus and his men to retrieve helen |
10 years |
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Who wrote the Iliad |
Homer |
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What is the sequel to the iliad |
The odyssey |
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What was the prize of the beauty contest and who won |
A golden apple with the words "to the fairest " on it, aphrodite |
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How long did it take for the stories in the Iliad and the Odyssey take to be complete |
20 years |
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who translated the Iliad |
Robert Fitzgerald |
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who was Polydamas |
a Trojan warrior whose earlier advice had been ignored by Hector |
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why doesn't hector run into the city to hide from Achilles |
he knows Polydamas will ridicule him for not following his advice earlier |
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what had polydamas advised hector to do |
bring his men back to the city the night before Achilles joined the fight |
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who was alexander |
a Trojan commander |
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what was another term used to refer to the greeks |
Atreidai |
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What does hector think about offering achilles so he doesn't have to fight |
part of the Trojan wealth |
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does hector decide to fight achilles
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yes |
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who does hector believe will decide who wins |
zeus |
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what did hector do when achilles approached him |
he ran |
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inflexible, uncompromising, cannot be soothed or comforted |
implacable |
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veer
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to change direction, shift, turn |
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who considers helping hector as the olympians watch the battle take place |
zeus |
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who forbids any interference in hector's fate |
athena |
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how does zeus decide who will die |
he weighs achilles' and hector's fates |
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who does zeus decide will die |
hector |
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who abandons hector after it is decided he will die |
apollo |
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what goddess decides to help Achilles |
athena |
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who does athena disguise herself as when she appears to hector |
his brother, deiphobus |
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what does athena do when she appears to hector as his brother |
she urges him to fight, and makes him falsely believe he has assistance |
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what hector swear before he fought achilles |
that if he killed achilles, he would take care of the body, only take the armor, and return his body to his people |
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did achilles agree to take care of and return hector's body if he killed hector |
no |
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pact |
an agreement between persons or groups |
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what reason does achilles give for his want to kill hector |
to avenge his men |
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what happened when achilles first threw his spear at hector |
it missed, but athena picked it up and gave it back to him |
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what happened when hector threw his spear at achilles |
it bounced off of achilles' shield, and hector was left defenseless |
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to avoid or escape |
elude |
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bemused |
lost in thought, confused |
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when does hector realize he is doomed |
when he turns to see his brother, who was really athena, has disappeared |
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hector refuses to die without what |
honor |
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what does hector attack achilles with after he loses his spear |
a sword |
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where did achilles stab hector |
in the neck |
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does hector die right away when he is stabbed |
no |
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what does achilles tell hector he's going to do with his body |
leave it to the wild animals, and will honor the corpse of patroclus |
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what does hector offer achilles in exchange for the return of his body |
he says his parents will pay achilles |
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does achilles agree to return hector's body in exchange for money |
no |
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what does hector say the gods will do if achilles doesn't return his body |
that the gods will hold this against achilles |
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to avoid or escape by cleverness or deception |
evade |
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ponderous |
very heavy |
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trembling from fear |
cowering |
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conspicuous |
easy to see noticeable |
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how does achilles know he'll die in battle |
his mother, who was a goddess, foretold his death |
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what did the greeks do with hector's body |
stripped hi, tied him to the back of a chariot, and dragged him around |
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what does achilles say will happen to the trojans now that hector is gone |
they won't continue to fight |
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open to attack easily hurt |
vulnerable |
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defile |
to make dirty to violate the honor of |
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how does Priam eventually get hector's body back |
hermes leads priam to achilles, and priam begs achilles for his son's body, and achilles agrees |
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what kind of hero is illustrated in the Iliad |
a classic hero |
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who was achilles mother |
thetus |
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what makes the Iliad an epic |
hector and achilles are both of noble birth; hector is a prince and achilles is a demi-god both illustrate the courage and bravery revered in their societies both perform heroic and courageous actions; achilles with killing his enemy and hector choosing to face his opponent instead of run into the city and hide supernatural forces are at work, with the gods in olympus and the weighing of fates |
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what made achilles (almost) immortal |
his mother dipped him in the river Styx, but he had a vulnerable spot on his heel from where she held him |
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who made achilles special armor |
Hephaestus |
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whose wedding started the trojan war |
thetus' |
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why did thetus' wedding start the trojan war |
Thetus purposely didn't invite Ires, the goddess of mischief, and so Ires decided to cause trouble to get back at Thetus. This lead to the beauty contest which resulted in Helen's kidnapping. |
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who were the goddesses in the beauty contest |
hera, athena, and aphrodite |
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who did Ires originally choose to judge the beauty contests |
Zeus, husband of Hera, and father of Athena, but he delegated the job to Paris |
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what job did paris have when zeus called on him |
he was working as a shepherd |
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who were paris' main family members |
King Priam, his father Hecuba, his mother Hector, his brother |
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what did hera offer paris in exchange for winning the beauty contest |
political power |
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who bribed paris with military power in exchange for winning the beauty contest |
athena |
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what did Aphrodite bribe paris with in exchange for winnning the beauty contest |
the love of the most beautiful woman |
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what was helen's nickname |
the face that launched 1,000 ships |
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who were the only 2 heroes that didn't want to help Menelaus |
Odysseus and Achilles |
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what did odysseus design |
the Trojan horse |
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where was Odysseus from |
Ithaca |
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why didn't Odysseus want to help menelaus |
he didn't want to leave his wife, Penelope, or his newborn son, Telemacus |
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how was Odysseus tricked into helping Menelaus |
Odysseus was pretending he was crazy by plowing his field with salt instead of seed. Some of the other soldiers took his son and put him in front of the plow, so that Odysseus had to stop plowing so he wouldn't kill his son, proving he wasn't crazy |
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Why didn't Achilles originally go to help Menelaus |
Because Thetus wouldn't let him go, because she knew he would die in battle |
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what is a harem |
a group of girls for a king bascially hoes |
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Where did Thetus send Achilles to hide him from Menelaus |
to live with a harem |
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how did Achilles hide in the harem |
he wore dresses and tried to blend in with the women |
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How was Achilles tricked into helping Menelaus |
Odysseus was sent to the harem, disguised as a travelling salesman. While all of the other girls were looking at the perfumes and cloths, Achilles was looking at the knives and weapons, and that's how Odysseus knew it was him |
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how long did the war of troy last |
ten years |
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what side were the olympians supposed to be on in the war of troy |
they were supposed to be neutral |
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who did hera support |
the greeks |
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who did zeus support |
the trojans |
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who was winning during most of the trojan war |
no one, it was even |
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who was agamemnon |
the leader of the greek army |
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why did the greeks blame Agamemnon for their losing |
because he kidnapped a slave girl and her father wanted her back |
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why did Achilles stop fighting for a while |
because he had urged Agamemnon to give his slave girl back, and Agamemnon said he would if he could have Achilles' girl instead, and Achilles refused |
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who urged Achilles to return to the fight |
Patroclus |
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what did Patroclus do when Achilles wouldn't return to the fight |
he took Achilles' armor and pretended to be him so the Greeks would fight |
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who killed Patroclus and what did they do with the body |
Hector, who disrespected the body and burned his ship |
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what caused achilles to return to the fight |
hearing that Patroclus was killed |
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what is an epic simile |
a comparison of two things that can last many lines, and doesn't have to use "like" or "as" |
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was the fight between Hector and Achilles fair |
no |
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why did Hector choose to fight Achilles |
to redeem himself for making a bad decision and losing a lot of men |
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what is a pyre |
a structure made of wood that a dead body is burned on |
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what word is used to describe wild animals, like vultures |
a kite |
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who killed Achilles and how |
Paris, who shot him with an arrow in his one vulnerable spot, the heel |
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how are achilles and grendel alike |
neither of them had pity on their victims |
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how are beowulf, achilles, and hector similar |
the represent the values of their societies all are of noble birth tremendous courage |
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how are beowulf and hector similar |
the both faced the odds and didn't back down |
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what was done with Achilles' and Patroclus' ashes |
they were put in an urn together |
