Chapter 21: The Fall of Troy and Its Aftermath

Question 1

Penthesilea

Answer 1

Leader of a force of Amazons on behalf of the Trojans

Killed by Achilles

Question 2

Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus)

Answer 2

Son of Achilles

Kills a son of Priam in front of his father’s eyes

Question 3

Laocoön

Answer 3

Trojan priest of Poseidon who tries to warn the Trojans against the Trojan Horse
He and his two sons were killed by two serpents that came from the sea (not because of his warning about the horse but because he had had sex with his wife in a temple when he wasn’t supposed to)

Question 4

Polyxena

Answer 4

Youngest daughter of Priam

Sacrificed after the war to the ghost of Achilles

Question 5

Nostoi

Answer 5

The stories of the returns of the heroes of Troy

“homecomings”

Question 6

Oresteia

Answer 6

Aeschylus’ dramatic trilogy about Agamemnon and his family
“story of Orestes”
Agamemnon, The Choephori (Libation Bearers), Eumenides

Question 7

Troilus

Answer 7

Son of Priam, killed by Achilles

Question 8

Orestes

Answer 8

Avenging son of Agamemnon

Tried and acquitted of the murder of his mother in Athens before the first Court of the Areopagus

Question 9

Electra

Answer 9

Faithful daughter of Agamemnon

Assists her brother Orestes to exact revenge in Mycenae

Question 10

Furies

Answer 10

Ancient pursuer of those who spill familial blood

Chase Orestes to Athens, where they are finally disabled

Question 11

Eumenides

Answer 11

“kindly ones”

New name for the Furies after being tamed by Athena