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61 Cards in this Set
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The returns |
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Hector kills |
Achilles friend Patroclus, causing Achilles to rejoin the fight |
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Achilles kills |
Hector by spear to the throat |
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The soul of what hero praises Penelope? |
Agamemnon |
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Who was the queen of the Phaeacians? |
Arete |
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Which of the following kings was detained in Egypt? |
Menelaus |
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According to Homer, how will Odysseus eventually die? |
A gentle death will come far from the sea.. |
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Which goddess especially aids Odysseus? |
Athena |
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How did Odysseus escape from the lair of the Cyclops? |
Aside from the previous nights events, he clung to the underside of a ram as it was going out to pasture.. |
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What may be the meaning of Odysseus' name? |
Man of pain |
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What is the meaning of Penelope's' usual epithetperiphron? |
“circumspect” |
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Who is the first suitor to be killed by Odysseus? |
Antinoüs |
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Who returns to Crete only to find that his wife has committed adultery? |
Idomeneus |
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Diomedes returns to Pylos to learn |
His wife also committed adultery |
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What did the hero Bellerophon accomplish? |
He killed the monstrous Chimaera, He succeeded in mounting Pegasus but died trying to reach heaven, He did battle with the Solymi and Amazons |
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According to the Perseus myth, the first coral was created when: |
Medusa’s head rested on some seaweed |
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Who accused Bellerophon of trying to seduce Amymone? |
Sthenoboea |
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With what Egyptian deity is Epaphus identified? |
Apis |
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King Phylacus asked Melampus to |
cure his son's impotence. |
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Nessus was |
a centaur who plotted Heracles' death. |
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With which city is Heracles' legend not particularly associated? |
Athens |
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What is the Greek word for labor or contest? |
Athloi |
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Heracles lay with the fifty daughters of |
Thespius |
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Who aids Heracles in his self-immolation? |
Poeas (nephew?) |
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Who was the king of Oechalia with whom Heracles had a conflict? |
Eurytus. |
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What Greek hero did Heracles rescue from the Underworld? |
Theseus |
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Autochthonous means |
Sprung from the earth |
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first, second, third, fourth and fifth kings of Athens were |
Cecrops, Erichthonius, ,Erechtheus, Pandion and Aegeus |
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How did Minos discover Daedalus' whereabouts? |
A ruse involving a spiral shell |
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The Labyrinth that housed the Minotaur was built by |
Daedalus |
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Who was the last king of Athens? |
Codrus |
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In the years following the Persian Wars of the first quarter of the fifth century B.C.E., the Athenian Cimon was instructed by the Delphic oracle to |
restore the bones of Theseus to their city. |
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Who was violated by Tereus and had her tongue cut out to silence her? |
Philomela. |
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Cephalus accidentally killed his wife named |
Procris in the gardens with her javelin |
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What legendary figure was credited with instituting the Panathenaea and setting up the cult image of Athena on the Acropolis? |
Erichthonius |
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Whom did Daedalus kill out of jealousy for his skill? |
Perdix, who was turned into a partridge |
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What daughter of Erectheus was loved by Boreas? |
Orithyia |
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What advice did Phineus give to Jason? |
To release a dove and see if it passed through the Symplegades |
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King Cyzicus and the Doliones: |
Treated Jason hospitably |
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What deity helped Argus build the Argo? |
Athena |
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How was Jason recognized by the illegitimate king? |
He was wearing one sandal |
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Jason was educated by |
Chiron and he returned after 20 years |
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Who usurped the throne from Jason's father, the rightful heir? |
Pelias |
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The name of the king of Colchis who was given care of the golden fleece was |
Aeëtes |
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Parents of Pelias |
Poseidon and Tyro |
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What poet gives the earliest continuous account of the capture of the fleece and the return journey? |
Pindar |
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With whom did Polydeuces have to compete in a boxing match? |
Amycus |
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What does the name Aea mean? |
Land |
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What is another term for the Argonauts? |
Minyae |
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What is the organizing principle of the Fasti? |
the festivals of the Roman calendar |
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Where may be the original home of the story of Pyramus and Thisbe |
Asia Minor |
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Who raped then married Flora? |
Zephyrus |
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Which is Ovid's only work composed in the epic hexameter? |
Metamorphoses |
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What work of Ovid's is composed of fifteen letters from mythological heroines to their absent lovers? |
Heroides |
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Who wrote the Thebaid and the Achilleid?. |
Statius |
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Which poet was one of the most famous members of the group of new poets called by poetae novi? |
Catullus |
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Who was the greatest of the early Roman poets, celebrated for his epic treatment Roman history in theAnnals? |
Ennius |
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What was the Greek equivalent of Augustus? |
Sebastos |
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What was the first and greatest of the Roman temples? |
The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus |
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The Etruscan deities Tin, Uni, and Menvra were assimilated with what Greek and Roman deities? |
Zeus/Jupiter, Hera/Juno, and Athena/Minerva. |
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To what does Magna Graecia refer? |
The name given to the Greek settlements in the boot of Italy and the eastern coast of Sicily.. |
