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The Trojan War marks the end of what? |
The Heroic Age |
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How long did the Trojan War last? |
Roughly 10 years |
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When did the Trojan War take place? |
1200 B.C.E |
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Where was the Trojan War fought? |
Phrygian City of Troy (modern Turkey) |
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The (blank) focuses on the final year of the war. |
The Iliad |
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The (blank) focuses on the hero Odysseus' long trip home from the war. |
The Odyssey |
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The events of the Trojan War began with the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, to which all of the gods and goddesses had been invited except for who? |
Eris (goddess of discord) |
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To take revenge Eris sent a golden apple inscribed as... |
"To the Fairest." |
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Who took claim to the golden apple? |
Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera |
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To resolve the issue of the golden apple, Zeus instructed who to take the three goddesses to Paris of Troy? |
Hermes |
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What did Aphrodite promise Paris in return for the golden apple? |
The love of Helen |
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Who demanded Helen's return when Paris abducted her? |
Menelaus |
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Who did Menelaus convince to declare war on Troy when they refused to send Helen back? |
His brother Agamemnon |
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What Greek heroes gathered under the command of Agamemnon? |
Achilles, Odysseus , Nestor, Patroclus, Diomedes, and two warriors named Ajax. |
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To make the sea journey for the armies smooth Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to who? |
Artemis |
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Who was commander in chief of the Trojan army? |
Hector
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Who was commander in chief of the Greek army? |
Agamemnon |
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Towards the end of the war there was a fight for Helen between Paris and Menelaus in which who won? What happened? |
Menelaus, but Paris still refused to hand over Helen |
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What did the Greeks build to infiltrate the walls of Troy? |
The Trojan Horse |
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What gods and goddesses aided the Greeks? |
Poseidon, Hera, and Athena
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What gods and goddesses aided the Trojans? |
Aphrodite and Ares
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Which gods and goddesses remained neutral during the war? |
Zeus and Apollo |
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Who was the King of Ithaca? |
Odysseus |
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Who advised the Spartan King Tyndareus to make all of Helen's suitors take an oath to give protection to whatever man Helen chose for her husband? |
Odysseus |
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Who won a foot race against Icarius and received his wife Penelope as the prize? |
Odysseus |
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Who was the most faithful wife of all by waiting 20 years for her husband's return? |
Penelope |
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Who was forced to join the war by Palamedes? |
Odysseus |
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How many ships did Odysseus bring with him from Ithaca and Cephallenia? |
12 |
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Who was noted for his cunning strategy and his wise counsel during the Trojan War? |
Odysseus |
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Who was the central figure in the Trojan War, narrating the whole story after its conclusion? |
Odysseus |
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Who was sent to the Trojans as ambassadors to try and get Helen back and avoid war? |
Odysseus and Menelaus |
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A prophecy told that Troy could not be taken without the participation of who? |
Odysseus |
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What did Penelope's suitors do to try and steal her husband's riches? |
Wove and unwove her prenuptial tapestry |
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What did Odysseus encounter in The Odyssey? |
Sirens, Cyclopes, Calypso, Circe, and Charybdis |
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Who was the foremost Greek hero in the Trojan War? |
Achilles |
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What river did Achilles mother dip him in that made him invulnerable except for the heel which she held him? |
Styx |
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Who was the son of Peleus and Thetis? |
Achilles |
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Thetis knew that if Achilles went to Troy he would eventually die. So what did she do to try and prevent him from going? |
Disguised him as a girl |
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There was a prophecy stating that the Greeks would not win without the support of who? |
Achilles |
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How many ships of the Myrmidons did Achilles bring with him? |
50 |
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Who wore immortal armor belonging to his father that was a wedding gift from the gods? |
Achilles |
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What 3 things did Peleus give Achilles? |
immortal armor, 2 immortal horses, and a spear made by Cheiron from a tree on Mount Pelion |
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What did Agamemnon steal from Achilles that forced him to withdraw from the war? |
the captive princess Briseis |
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What caused Achilles to re-enter the war? |
Hector killed his friend Patroclus |
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With the aid of Athena who did Achilles kill and drag to the Greek camp? |
Hector |
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Who killed Achilles with a poisoned arrow in the heel? |
Paris |
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How many ships from Argos, Tiryns, Epidaurus, and Troezen did Diomedes bring with him? |
80 |
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Who was a favorite of Athena and one of the mightiest heroes in the Trojan War? |
Diomedes |
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During the Trojan War who managed to injure the god Ares and goddess Aphrodite? |
Diomedes |
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What did Diomedes and Odysseus steal from King Rhesus and remove during a night raid? |
a team of fine horses and the Palladium |
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What is the Palladium? |
a statue of Athena |
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Who hid in the Trojan horse? |
Odysseus, Diomedes, Neoptolemus |
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How many ships did Ajax Greater bring with him from Salamis? |
12 |
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Who was the most handsome and bravest of men besides Achilles that was also a gigantic man, slow of thought and speech, but quick in battle? |
Ajax |
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Who won a one-to-one challenge against Hector and received his sword as a reward? |
Ajax |
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Who retrieved and competed for Achilles armor after he died? |
Ajax and Odyessus |
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Who plotted to kill Odysseus but went mad and killed sheep thinking they were Greek leaders and then later committed suicide? |
Ajax |
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Who was an archer and awarded with bows and arrows when he set Heracles' pyre on fire? |
Philoctetes |
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How many ships did Philoctetes bring with him from Methone and Meliboea? |
7 |
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On the way to Troy who was bitten by a snake and left alone on the desolate island of Lemnos for 9 years because of the smell coming from his wound? |
Philoctetes |
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Towards the end of the Trojan War an oracle said the war could not be won without the weapons of whom? |
Heracles |
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Who was Philoctetes first victim when he finally entered the war? |
Paris |
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Who was the son of Achilles and Deidamia? |
Neoptolemus |
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After 9 years of battle after Achilles died who was brought into the Trojan War and given his armor? |
Neoptolemus |
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Who killed the aged Trojan king Priam at the altar of Zeus, cut Polyxena's throat upon his father's grave, and threw Astyanax from the wall of Troy? |
Neoptolemus |
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Who did Neoptolemus marry? |
Hermione, daughter of Menelaus and Helen |
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Who killed Neoptolemus? |
Hermione and her lover Orestes |
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Who was the commander in chief and greatest hero of the Trojan troops and their allies? |
Hector
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Hector was married to who? |
Andromache |
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Who was abandoned in the wilderness? |
Paris |
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Who was the best archer in the Trojan forces? |
Paris |
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After the fall of Troy what happened to Helen? |
She left with Menelaus |
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The sons of Priam were? |
Hector, Paris, Helenus, Cassandra, and Deiphobus |
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Who was a seer and tried to prevent Troy from falling by dissuading Paris to abduct Helen? |
Helenus |
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Who received Helenus as a slave? |
Neoptolemus |
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Anchises and Aphrodite were the parents of: |
Aeneas |
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Who was raised by nymphs and was a Dardanian hero? |
Aeneas |
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Who was said to have accompanied Paris to abduct Helen? |
Aeneas |
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Who was Hector's second in command? |
Aeneas |
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Who wounded Aeneas and stole his immortal horses? |
Diomedes |
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After the fall of Troy who showed disrespect to the altar of Athena? |
Lesser Ajax |
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Who did Athena call upon to help her destroy most of the Greek fleet due to disrespect of her altar? |
Poseidon |
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Who did Odysseus kill for forcing him into the Trojan War? |
Palamedes |
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Who created a false beacon out of revenge for his son Palamedes and caused a lot of Greeks to shipwreck? |
Nauplius |
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Who convinced some of the Greek wives to have affairs in revenge for his son Palamedes? |
Nauplius |
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Who was stranded in Egypt at the end of the war because he was angry it lasted so long and refused to make the required sacrifices before leaving? |
Menelaus and Helen |
