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80 Cards in this Set
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king of troy
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priam
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wife of king of troy
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hecuba
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best trojan warrior
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hector
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wife of trojan warrior
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andromache
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son of hector
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astyanax
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brother of trojan warrior/cause of war
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paris
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king of sparta
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menelaus
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wife of the king of sparta
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helen
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king of myrmidon/greatest greek warrior
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achilles
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father of achilles
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peleus
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mother of achilles
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thetis
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king of mycenae
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agamemnon
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wife of agamemnon
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clytemnestra
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achilles trophy
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briaus
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Agamemnon trophy
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crysius
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elder, wise achaean commander
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nestor
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trojan soldier who survived the fall of troy
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aeneus
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head of the gods
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zeus
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wife/sister of head of the gods
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hera
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gods who side with the greeks
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athena and ares
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gods who side with the trojans
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ares and aphrodite and apollo
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greek seer in iliad and aeneid
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calchas
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best friend of achilles
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patriclus
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achaean commanders
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Odysseus Ajax Nestor Menelaus
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author of the iliad
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homer
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author of the aeneid
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virgil
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goddess responsible for Aeneas' wreck at sea
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juno
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person who recount the fall of troy in the Aeneid
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aeneus
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queen of carthage who falls in love with aeneus
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dido
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aeneus' mother
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venus
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trojan warrior who warns troy that the wooden horse is a trick
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Laocoon
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trojan who wants to haul wooden horse into the walls of the city
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thymoetus
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the "unknown fellow" who claims to have escaped Greeks
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Sinon
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two greek commanders who desecrated Athena's shine, according to Sinon's tale
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ulysses diometes
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ideas
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notions
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irreverent
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blasphemy
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confusion
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tumult
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trickery
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guile
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purposely false
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perjured
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enraged
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insessed
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deprived
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bereft
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shamelessly bold
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brazen
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holy/sacred
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sacrosanct
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beg
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implore
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commands
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marshals
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limited to a certain quality
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stinted
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thin or bony
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gaunt
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shining
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lustrous
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famous
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illustrious
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waved
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brandished
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sharpened
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whetted
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rob by force in warfare
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plunder
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tormented
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harrowed
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unrestrained
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unfettered
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treating as not sacred
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desecrate
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signs that suggest the future
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portants
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what causes the trojan war to begin?
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the stealing of helen
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who brings the plague upon the greeks and why?
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apollo; to get back crysius
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explain the argument that occurs in Book 1 between Achilles and Agamemnon
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stealing the prize of a woman
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what does book 6 reveal about hector's view of honor? how does his view of honor compare with the greek warriors' view?
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hectors- honor for family and people
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what is hector's final plea to achilles before he dies in book 22?
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to return his body to troy
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what events demonstrate achilles' loss of honor? how does he regain his honor?
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lost: dragging/desecrating/not returning body; stop fighting; curses country
gain: returns body nicely, 10 day repreff |
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how is the aeneid a national epic
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founding of rome
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summarize the exposition of the aeneid book II
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aeneus: brought to carthage by a storm by juno and meets queen dido and recounts the story
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explain the tale sinon tells the trojans about the wooden horse
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offering to the gods as sacrifice
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according to his "tale" how and why sinon escapes the greeks
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escapes and hides int he marshes, gonna be sacrificed
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what quality of the greeks leads to the downfall of the trojans?
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liars
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"if i ever roofed a shrine to please your heart, ever burned the long bones...."
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cryses
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"would to god my rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you raw-"
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achilles
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"why so much grief for me? no man will hurl me down to death, against my fate.."
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hector
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"there can be no covenants between men and lions..."
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achilles
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"I want her mine in my own house! I rank her higher than Clytemnestra, my wedded wife-"
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agamemnon
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"... and the seven brothers I had within our halls..."
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Andromache
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"i've suffered what no other mortal has, I've kissed the hand of the one who killed my children."
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priam
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"my honor never equals yours, whenever we sack some wealthy trojan stronghold..."
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achilles
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"many the sons I had whom the swift runner Achilles caught and shipped on barren salt sea as slaves.."
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Hecuba
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"and so in the same breath I mourn for you and me, my doom-struck, harrowed heart!"
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Helen
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"sorrow too deep to tell, your majesty, you order me to feel and tell once more.."
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Aeneus
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"what land on earth, what seas can take me in?" what's left me in the end, outcast that i am"
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sinon
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whoever you may be, the greeks are gone; forget them from now on; you shall be ours.."
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priam
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