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Achilles Flashcards

1
Q

Who were the parents of Achilles?

A

Peleus and Thetis

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2
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Who was the son of Peleus?

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Achilles

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3
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Who was the son of Thetis?

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Achilles

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4
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Where was Peleus king?

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Phthia

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5
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What was Achilles’s original name?

A

Ligyron

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6
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Who is Ligyron?

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Achilles

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7
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Who dipped their baby…

A

Thetis

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8
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What did Thetis feed to Achilles?

A

Ambrosia

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9
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What did Thetis want for her baby?

A

for him to be immortal

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10
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Who named Achilles?

A

Chiron

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11
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Who raised Achilles?

A

Chiron

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12
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What did Chiron feed Achilles?

A

the entrails of animals

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13
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Where did Achilles grow up?

A

mt pelion

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14
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Who was Phoenix king of?

A

The Dolopians

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15
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Who became the tutor of Achilles?

A

Phoenix

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16
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What son of Menoetius…

A

Patroclus

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17
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Who was the father of Patroclus?

A

Menoetius

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18
Q

Who accidentally killed their playmate in Opus?

A

Patroclus

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19
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Where did Thetis send Achilles?

A

To Scyrus

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20
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Where was Lycomdes king?

A

Scyrus

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21
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Who announced that Troy couldn’t be taken without Achilles’s help?

A

Calchas

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22
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What was Achilles’s name when he was disguised as a girl?

A

Pyrrha

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23
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Who, disguised as a girl in the court of Lycomedes…

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Achilles

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24
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Whose court did Achilles hide in?

A

Lycomdes’s

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25
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Which of Lycomedes’s daughters bore a son to Achilles?

A

Deidameia

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26
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Who was the son of Deidameia and Achilles?

A

Neoptolemus / Pyrrhus

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27
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Who came to Scyrus in search of Achilles?

A

Odysseus

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28
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How did Odysseus trick Achilles into revealing himself?

A

He placed feminine things as well as a spear and shield on a table and blew a trumpet to signal an invasion

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29
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What happened when the trumpet blew on Scyrus?

A

Achilles stripped off his feminine clothing and grabbed the spear and shield

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30
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Who did Agamemnon promise Iphigeneia would marry?

A

Achilles

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31
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In Mysia, what king of Teuthrania…

A

telephus

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32
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Where did Achilles would Telephus?

A

his thigh

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33
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What was Telephus told about his wound?

A

Only the inflictor could heal it

34
Q

Who explained to Achilles that the inflictor of Telephus’s wound was his spear?

A

Odysseus

35
Q

How was Telephus healed?

A

Achilles scraped the rust from his spear into the wound

36
Q

What did Telephus do in return for Achilles healing his wound?

A

he guided the greeks to Troy

37
Q

What did Thetis warn Achilles?

A

he would either have a long comfortable life in Phthia or a short glorious one at Troy

38
Q

Who was the father of Tenes, king of Tenedos?

A

Apollo

39
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What did Thetis warn Achilles about Tenes?

A

Not to kill him for Apollo, his father, would be sure to avenge him

40
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Who warned Achilles about king Tenes?

A

Thetis

41
Q

Who warned Achilles about having a short glorious life if he chose to fight in the Trojan War?

A

Thetis

42
Q

Who was the first to land at Troy?

A

Protesilaus

43
Q

Who was the first greek to be killed at Troy?

A

Protesilaus

44
Q

Who warned Achilles not to be the first to step on Troy?

A

Thetis

45
Q

What was strange about Cycnus, king of Colonae?

A

he was invulnerable to weapons

46
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How did Achilles kill Cycnus?

A

strangled him with the thongs of his helmet

47
Q

Who was the first person Achilles fought once he was on Troy?

A

Cycnus

48
Q

Where did Eetion rule?

A

Hypoplacian Thebes

49
Q

Who killed Eetion?

A

Achilles

50
Q

How did Achilles bury Eetion and why?

A

With his armor on out of respect

51
Q

Who did Achilles bury with their armor on?

A

Eetion

52
Q

Who killed Troilus?

A

Achilles

53
Q

Who did Achilles sell for ransom?

A

Lycaon, Isus, and Antiphus

54
Q

Where was Briseis from?

A

Lyrnessus

55
Q

What Lyrnessian woman…

A

Briseis

56
Q

What three men formed the embassy…

A

Odysseus, Ajax the Greater, and Phoenix

57
Q

Who killed Patroclus?

A

Hector

58
Q

What river did Achilles fight?

A

Scamander

59
Q

Why was the Scamander River mad?

A

Because it was filled with corpses from Achilles

60
Q

who dried up the scamander river?

A

Hephaestus

61
Q

How did Achilles beat the Scamander river?

A

Hephaestus dried it up

62
Q

Who killed Hector?

A

Achilles

63
Q

Who aided Achilles in killing Hector?

A

Athena

64
Q

What did Achilles do to Hector?

A

Stripped him of armor and dragged him behind his chariot three times around the city

65
Q

Who killed Pentheileia?

A

Achilles

66
Q

Who fell in love with the corpse of an amazon?

A

Achilles

67
Q

Who taunted Achilles for falling in love with Penthesleia’s corpse?

A

Thersites

68
Q

Who killed Thersites?

A

Achilles

69
Q

After killing Thersites, where did Achilles have to sail to be purified for it?

A

Lesbos

70
Q

Who purified Achilles for killing Thersites?

A

Odysseus

71
Q

Who killed Memnon?

A

Achilles

72
Q

Who killed Achilles?

A

Paris

73
Q

How did Apollo get revenge for Achilles killing Tenes?

A

he guided Paris’s arrow

74
Q

Who made Achilles’s armor?

A

Hephaestus

75
Q

Who won Achilles’s armor?

A

Odysseus

76
Q

Who killed himself because he lost to Odysseus for the armor?

A

Ajax the Greater

77
Q

Who predicted that Troy would only fall if Achilles’s son Neoptolemus fought with the greeks?

A

Helenus

78
Q

Who went to Scyrus and asked for Neoptolemus’s aid?

A

Odysseus and Phoenix

79
Q

Who did Odysseus give Achilles’s armor to?

A

Neoptolemus

80
Q

What did Achilles’s ghost demand?

A

They sacrifice Priam’s daughter Polyxena on his tomb

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