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27 Cards in this Set
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what gods were loyal to the trojans? |
aphrodite, apollo, artemis, leto, ares, xanthus |
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what gods were loyal to the achaeans? |
athena, hera, posiedon, thetis, hephaestus |
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what are the six parts of the epic cycle of troy? |
cypria, iliad, aethiopis, little iliad, sack of troy, nostoi, odyssey, telegony |
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what is involved in the cypria? |
the events leading up to the trojan war, the judgement of paris, and the first 9 years of war |
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what is involved in the aethiopis? |
the amazons ally with the trojans, achilles kills them, achilles dies |
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what is involved in the little iliad? |
the building of the trojan horse and the awarding of the arms to odysseus |
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what is involved in the nostoi? |
agamemnon and menalaus return to greece
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what is involved in the telegony? |
odysseus sails to thesprotia, and his death at the hands of his illegitimate son |
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what is the geneology of the royal family of troy? |
dardanus > erichthonius > tros > ilus > laomedon > priam > hector > astyanax |
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who is hector's nuclear family? |
wife andromache, child astyanax |
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how does aenaes's line relate to priam's? |
they departed after tros, his son assaracus had capys, who had aenaes's father anchises |
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who are the sons of atreus, and what did they rule? |
agamemnon and menelaus rule mycenae/argos |
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what is achilles's patronym? |
peleides |
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what is agamemnon's patronym? |
atreides |
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what are the patronyms of the aeantes? |
great ajax is telamonian and little ajax is oiliades |
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what is the patronym of odysseus? |
laertides |
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what is the patronym of diomedes? |
tydeides |
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what information is contained in the proem? |
the story is about achilles's rage, the greeks will lose many men, it started with a feud between achilles and agamemnon, and the feud was caused by apollo. |
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what are the six parts of an aristeia? |
1. the hero arming for battle 2. first set of battle exploits 3. hero is forced to retreat 4. god heals or inspires hero 5. second set of battle exploits 6. hero defeats a powerful enemy |
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what are the names of homer's muses? |
Calliope (epic poetry) and Cleo (history) |
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who is the only comic character in the iliad? |
thersites
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who are the achaean and trojan prophets? |
calchas (achaean) cassandra and helenus (trojan) |
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what does ab ovo mean? |
in the beginning |
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how long was the trojan war? |
10 years, the iliad is set at the end of the 9th |
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how much time passed between the abduction of helen and the iliad? |
20 years |
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what crimes are punished by chthonic forces of justice? |
blasphemy, murder of parents, and breaking of the guest-host treaty |
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what is the truest of bird signs? |
an eagle representing zeus |
