Chapter 20: The Trojan War

Question 1

What house did the Kings who led the Greek expedition to troy come from?

Answer 1

The House of Atreus

Question 2

What did Tantalus do?

Answer 2

He invited the gods to a banquet and chopped up his son Pelops and served him in a stew

Question 3

What body part of Pelops did Demeter accidentally consume?

Answer 3

His shoulder

Question 4

Who was the father of Hippodamia?

Answer 4

Oenomaus

Question 5

What happened to the suitors who tried to marry Hippodamia?

Answer 5

They had their heads cut off because they could never beat him in a race

Question 6

Who was successful at beating Oenomaus and how did he succeed?

Answer 6

Pelops, with the help of Myrtilus

Question 7

Who were the two brothers fighting for the throne?

Answer 7

Atreus and Thyestes

Question 8

What were the four children of Leda?

Answer 8

Polydeuces and Helen (semi-divine, with their father Zeus) as as well as Castor and Clymenestra (mortal, with their father Tyndareus)

Question 9

Who did Clymenestra marry?

Answer 9

Agamemnon

Question 10

Who did Helen marry and what was the name of their child?

Answer 10

She married Menelaus and they had a child named Hermione

Question 11

Who did Thetis marry?

Answer 11

Peleus

Question 12

Who wasn’t invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?

Answer 12

Eris (strife)

Question 13

What did Eris do after finding out she wasn’t invited

Answer 13

She crashed the party and rolled an apple across the floor that was to be claimed by the fairest goddess

Question 14

Who fought over the apple?

Answer 14

Aphrodite, Hera and Athena

Question 15

Who are the parents of Paris?

Answer 15

Hecabe and Priam

Question 16

Who was the child of Penelope and Odysseus?

Answer 16

Telemachus

Question 17

Who made Odysseus rejoin the army?

Answer 17

Palamedes

Question 18

Who are the parents of Achilles?

Answer 18

Peleus and Thetis

Question 19

How did Achille’s mother attempt to hide him from the war?

Answer 19

She dressed him up in girl’s clothes

Question 20

What happened to Telephus?

Answer 20

He got into a fight with Achilles and was wounded. His wound refused to heal and he later found out that only that which harmed him could heal him so Achilles scraped off some of the corrosion from his sword and healed Telephus. He then agreed to lead the expedition to Troy

Question 21

What did the men on the expedition have to do to stop the wind blowing them in the wrong direction

Answer 21

Agamemnon was told that he had to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis (he’d boasted he was a better spear thrower than her). He pretended that he wanted to marry her to Achilles and slashed her throat on an altar

Question 22

Who wrote the poem Agamemnon?

Answer 22

Aeschylus

Question 23

Who was the first to die on shore when the expedition landed at the Troad?

Answer 23

Protesilaus

Question 24

Why was Achilles so wrathful?

Answer 24

Agamemnon claimed his prize Briseis. This made him sulk inside his tent

Question 25

Who is the wife and child of Hector?

Answer 25

Andromache is Hector’s wife and their child is named Astynax

Question 26

What is the name of Achille’s friend who is killed in the battle of Troy?

Answer 26

Patroclus

Question 27

Who does Achilles kill as revenge for the death of his friend?

Answer 27

Hector