Greek Exam 3

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Ajax lesser

Back 1

Rapes Cassandra @ temple of Athena

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Ajax Greater

Back 2

stabs himself with sword

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Neoptolemus

Back 3

Kills King Priam @ alter of Zeus

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Tantelus

Back 4

feeds his son Pelops to gods to trick them to eat human, only Demeter is tricked, She curses his family line
(HOUSE OF ATREUS)

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Pelops

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Tantelus' son, fed to Demeter, has piece missing from his shoulder
(HOUSE OF ATREUS)

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Atreus

Back 6

1 of Pelop's son, Father of Agamemnon and Menelaus
(HOUSE OF ATREUS)

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Aegisthus

Back 7

Thyeste's son, Lovers with Clytaemnestra while Hector is @ war,
(HOUSE OF ATREUS)
Kills Agamemnon while he is bathing, killed by Orestes

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Clytaemenestra

Back 8

Agamemnon's wife, has 3 childern, lovers with Aegisthus, plans to kill Agamemnon with Aegisthus, killed by son (Orestes)

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Iphigenia

Back 9

daughter of Agamemnon & Clytaemenestra, Sacrificed by father to make winds cooperate to sail to Troy

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Orestes

Back 10

Son of Agamemnon & Clytaemenestra, sent to country side for protection because he is next in line to rule, Avenges father's death by killing Clytaemenestra & Aegisthus, plagued by Furies for killing mother, Athena eventually rules him innocent and the Furies are turned into Eumenides

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Nostoi

Back 11

"Homecoming" returning home

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Cassandra

Back 12

Trojan princess, sees future but no one believes her, Agamemnon takes her to his home as a war prize

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Erinyes

Back 13

(Furies) bad conscience that plagues you

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"Eumenides"

Back 14

Good spirits that dont haunt you

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"Metis"

Back 15

"Cunning Intelligence"
Odysseus has it--makes him a hero

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"In Medias Res"

Back 16

"In the middle of things"
How the Odyssey starts

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Calypso

Back 17

(One Who Hides) Calypso's Island
sleeps with Odysseus, promises him immortality if he stays, he deosnt want to stay, Zeus sends Hermes to tell her she has to let him go

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Ithaca

Back 18

Odysseus' home

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Telemachus

Back 19

Odysseus' son, helps him get his house back

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Laeretes

Back 20

Odysseus' father, helps him get his house back

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Penelope

Back 21

Odysseu's loyal wife, puts off suitors by weaving a funeral shroud for Laeretes

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Mentes

Back 22

Odysseus' friend-- Athena disguised to tell O's family to look for him

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Proteus

Back 23

Shape shifter god

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Phaeacians

Back 24

Blessed people, send O away on a nice ship supply him with food and a crew

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Nausicaa

Back 25

Daughter of Alcinous, princess of Phaeacians

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Alcinous

Back 26

King of Phaeacians

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Arete

Back 27

Queen of Phaeacians

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Demodocus

Back 28

Nusician of Phaeacians

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First word of Odyssey

Back 29

MAN

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Nestor

Back 30

Very hospitable to Telemachus, sends him to Sparta to see if Menelaus & Helen know anything about his father

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Menelaus

Back 31

forgets story of Odysseys (because of Helens drug) and tells story of his own homecoming & Agamemnon's death

Hint 31

has to disguise himself as a seal to catch Proteus to get hom

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"Xenia"

Back 32

Guest friendship

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"Paideia"

Back 33

Education or Instruction
Odyssey believed to instruct how to have good guest friendship/ hopitality

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Polyphemus

Back 34

Cyclops, son of Poseidon, doesnt care about guest friendship, has Poseidon curse O while he is leaving the island

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Aeolus

Back 35

Keeper of the winds

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Laestrygonias

Back 36

Giant Cannibals, destroy 11 of his ships

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Lotus Eaters

Back 37

if you eat the fruit you forget you want to go home and stay there forever, O resists temptation of the fruit but loses a lot of men to it

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Circe

Back 38

gives O and his men drugged drinks, men forget they want to go home & turned to pigs, Hermes tells O & gives him an herb to turn them back and to sleep with her. Tells O he must go to the underworld next to see Tyreceus

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Elphanor

Back 39

gets left on Circes island and dies, come back as first spirit and wants a proper burrial

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Tyreseus

Back 40

Spitit warns O not to eat Helios' cattle (cattle of the sun), tells O about the suitors in his home, "go home, defeat them, travel again, then return home old to die"

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Katabasis

Back 41

"Going Down" to the underworld

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Sirens

Back 42

beautiful women's faces on bird bodies, knows future, sings & seduces

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Scylla

Back 43

man-eating monster, lives in cave, beautiful waist up, dogs coming from waits, snakes tale

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Charybdis

Back 44

Horrible whirl pool across form Scylla

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Helio's Cows

Back 45

eaten by men, cursing men and journey, storm wipes out all men except O.

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Athena

Back 46

Helping out Odysseus,

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Eumaeus

Back 47

Humble poor swineherd, devoted to help O back into his home

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Melanthius

Back 48

Bad goat hearder, worked for O, on suitors sides

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Argus

Back 49

O's old hunting dog who dies when he sees his master

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Antinous

Back 50

Worst suitor of them all,