Chapter 21

Question 1

Neoptolemus

Answer 1

Achilles son; needed to be recruited to win Trojan War

Question 2

Laocoon

Answer 2

priest of Poseidon; suspected horse to hold warrior; two serpents arose from sea and strangled him and two sons; sign of divine anger but for having sex with wife in temple precincts of Poseidon

Question 3

Polyxena

Answer 3

youngest of Priam’s daughters; taken to Achilles tomb by Neoptolemus and cut her throat over the grave

Question 4

Nostoi

Answer 4

homecomings; epic that told the returns of the hers from Troy and what happened to them

Question 5

Oresteia

Answer 5

three plays by Aeschylus telling the story of Agamemnon’s death and then of son’s revenge

Question 6

Troilus

Answer 6

youngest son of Priam and Hecabe; Achilles killed him in ambush at the spring

Question 7

Orestes

Answer 7

son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; raised near Delphi as child; ordered to return to Argos and avenge father

Question 8

Electra

Answer 8

Agamemnon and Clytemnestra’s daughter; mom sends her to grave to give libations to father’s grave; bitter towards mother and plot to murder her

Question 9

Furies

Answer 9

persecuting spirits of murdered kin surround Orestes after killing mother

Question 10

Eumenides

Answer 10

“the kindly ones”; dwell in grotto beneath the Areopagus; given place in Athens by Athena; no longer malignant