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30 Cards in this Set
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Menelaus
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husband of Helen of Troy, greek king
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how long did war last for?
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10 years!
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Helen of Troy
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most beautiful women to ever live, promised to marry Paris by Aphrodite. face that launched 1,000 ships.
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Agamemnon
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brother of Menelous, greek king, gods would not give him good wind for sailing because he offended them but they said they would if he kidded his daughter. so he did. his wife later got so made that she killed him
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Clytemnestra
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Agamemnon killer, because she was so mad at him for killing her daughter. Son Orestes kills her because he kills her father
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Orestes
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Kills mother because she killed his father. Furies tracked down for years but finally the gods forgave him
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Achilles
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Agamemnon steals Achilles slave girl, greatest greek warrior, immortal except for his one heel, dipped in the river of styx, pouts because his girl is gone and refuses to fight in the war but after the death of his friend he steps in and takes down Hector. Takes Hectors body and parades it around city. gods mad! finally killed by Paris
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Ajax
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trying to get Achillies armor after he dies. competing with Odysseus for it, army voted for Odysseus and Ajax goes insane because he does not win. Thinks he is killing many greek soldiers but he is really kills livestock and when he finally sees what he is doing he is so embarrassed that he kills himself.
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Odysseus
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Gets Achilles armor. Very clever- went through trials to get home
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Priam
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King of Troy, goes into Greek camp just to get his son's body back, Achillies gives it to him
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Hector
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greatest warrior in Troy, kills patroclus and achillies kills him for revenge
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Paris
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semi okay warrior, kills achilies with the help of apollo
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Cassandra
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prophetess who can always see the future but no ones believes her
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Patroclus
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Achillies friend who goes into battle with his armor on and pretends to be Achillies because he will not fight. Hector kills him
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Hecuba
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mother of Hector, Paris, and Cassandra, Queen of Troy
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Andromache
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Hector's wife, Odysseus later kills
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Sinon
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nobody greek who went to the gate of troy and told a big lie to get into the gates of the city. goes with horse. WORKS
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Iphigenia
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daughter of Adamemnon who was sacrificed for the winds to sail to Troy. was tricked and thought she was going to marry Achillies but in fact she was going to be killed
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Aegisthus
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Clydemnestra's lover
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Thetis
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nymth whose wedding cause Paris to judge who was the fairest female god
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Judgement of Paris
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Thetis wedding was on Mnt. Olymbus and they invited everyone except the goddess of discard so she threw a golden apple in the middle of the wedding and wrote "for the fairest" and so Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite thought it was for them. Zeus did not want to pick so made Paris. etch bribed him with something. but picked Aphrodite's gift of to marry the most fairest women ever. but she was married, Helen of Troy
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What led to the fall of Troy?
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Greeks bring "present" to the Trojans. inside the horse was greek soldiers and after the Trojans had gotten drunk from celebrating their "victory" the greeks went and killed EVERYONE!
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Laoccon-
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prophet who said did not let the horse in the Trojan walls, it will lead to the fall of Troy. Athena sent serphants and killed him
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Gods that fought on the Greeks side
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Athena
Hera Phosiden |
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Gods that fought on the Trojan side
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Apollo Artamus
Ares Aphrodite |
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What side to Zeus fight on?
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he did not fight on one side
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Sirens
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name of enchanting creatures that lured sailors to their deaths
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lotus eaters
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island dwellers who fed on a special plant that made them lose interest in everything else.
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Poluphemus
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one-eyed cyclops that terrorized Odysseus and his men
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Circe
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evil sorceress that turns Odysseus men into pigs
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