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1
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Tried to feed the gods his son’s arm.

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Tantalus

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2
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the substance that flows through a gods body instead of blood

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Ichor

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3
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gods drink… and eat…

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Nectar and Ambrosia

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Tantalus’s son, beat a king in a chariot race by putting beeswax in the wheel of his opponent.

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Pelos

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Had to eternally push a rock up a hill

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Sisyphus

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Pelos married…

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Hippodamia

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Had a super fast chariot, jumped off when it broke but the king died on it.

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Myrtilus

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Pelos pushed him off a cliff because he treid to rape his wife, while he was falling, cursed Pelos’s family

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Myrtilus

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Son’s of Pelos

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Atreus and Thyestes

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Who did gave Atreus a golden fleece ram

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Pan

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Who was orignally king of Pelos’s sons and who took over

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Atreus was at first then Thyestes took his spot

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12
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Who was mad that Thyestes committed adultery

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Zeus

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13
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Who fed Thyestes his own sons heads

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Atreus

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14
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Who sleeps with their own daughter to have a son

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Thyestes

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The name of Thyestes’s son

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Aegisthus

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16
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Atreus’s sons

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Agamemnon and Menelaus

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who kills Atreus

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Aegisthus

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18
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was raped by a swan that was actually Zeus

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Leda

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19
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Offspring of Leda and Zeus

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Helen and Clytemnestra

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20
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Who did Clytemnestra marry?

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Agamemnon

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21
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Who does Helen marry?

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Menelaus

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22
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Who was kidnapped and who was in charge of finding her?

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Helen was kidnapped. Agamemnon chief of search force

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23
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Who’s deer did Agamemnon accidentally kill?

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Artemis

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24
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Who did Artemis want Agamemnon to sacrifice?

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his daughter, Iphigenia

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25
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Who did Agamemnon tell Iphigenia she was going to marry but instead sacrifices her?

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Achilles

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26
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Who kills Agamemnon?

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Clytemnestra

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27
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Who was Clytemnestra and Agamemnon’s son who had to avenge their father?

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Orestes and Electra

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28
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Who did Orestes and Electra kill?

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Their mother Clytemnestra and Aegisthus

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29
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Who writes about the Trojan war

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Homer

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30
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What is the name of the book that Homer writes?

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Iliad

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31
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Modern man that believed the Trojan war was real?

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Heinrich Schliemann

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32
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a mermaid sea goddess, was destined to have a son greater than his father. Zeus was concerned so he had her married to someone.

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Thetis

33
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The person that Thetis marries

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Peleus

34
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Who wasn’t invited to Thetis and Peleus’s wedding?

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the goddess of Strife

35
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Person who had to choose which goddess was the most beautiful?

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Paris

36
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Who did Paris choose as the most beautiful goddess?

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Aphrodite

37
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who persuaded Helen to go to Troy for Paris?

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Aphrodite

38
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Greatest Greek hero. Thetis and Peleus’s son.

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Achilles

39
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Didnt want to go to war so acted crazy.

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Odysseus

40
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King of Troy

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Priam

41
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Queen of Troy

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Hecuba

42
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Had a dream of a torch burning the city of Troy

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Hecuba

43
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Who sent their kid into exposure from Troy

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Priam and Hecuba

44
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Who was Priam and Hecuba’s son?

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Paris

45
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Greatest Trojan warrior, Paris’s brother, Hecuba and Priam’s son

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Hector

46
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Hector’s wife

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Andromache

47
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Who took in a slave who was the daughter of a priest of Apollo, which cursed the Greek army?

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Agamemnon

48
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Who did Athena appear to stop them from killing Agamemnon?

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Achilles

49
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A Greek concept of morally correct behavior

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Themis

50
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Achilles’s best friend. Wore his armor in battle. Tried to take on Hector but was defeated.

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Patroclus

51
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Who put the fate of Achilles and Hector on a weight?

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Zeus

52
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Who asked Achilles for Hector’s body back?

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Priam

53
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Who killed Achilles?

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Paris

54
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Recovered Achilles’s body and wanted it. Falls on his own sword.

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Ajax

55
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Who gets Achilles’ armor

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Odysseus

56
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Zeus son who was fated to go to the Underworld.

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Sarpedon

57
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Who had the idea to make a big wooden horse to get into Troy?

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Odysseus

58
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Who’s son was thrown off of the city walls after the Trojans lost?

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Andromache

59
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Who was Hecuba given to as a slave?

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Odysseus

60
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Who was given Cassandra as a slave?

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Agamemnon

61
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What Trojan escaped from Troy and what is the name of his story?

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Aeneas in the Aeneid

62
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Who started Rome and was a member of the Trojan royal family?

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Aeneas

63
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What was the story of Odysseus and who wrote it?

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Odyssey by Homer

64
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Where did Odysseus start his journey?

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Ithica

65
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Who is the wife of Odysseus?

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Penelope

66
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If someone ate this, they would forget everything and never leave.

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Land of the Lotus-Eaters

67
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A cyclops, son of Posideon, cursed Odysseus to his father Poseidon.

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Polyphemus

68
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God of the wind, gave Odysseus a bag of all the winds.

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Aeolus

69
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A witch turned Odysseus’s men into pigs, sends Odysseus to the Underworld.

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Circe

70
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Who gave Odysseus an antidote to being immune to Circe’s food?

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Hermes

71
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Told Odysseus what it was like to be a slave of the Underworld?

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Achilles

72
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Odysseus encounters in the Underworld and is told by him that he regrets not dying on the battlefield

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Agamemnon

73
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Bird-like women, who’s song was so beautiful that it caused death?

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Sirens

74
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Odysseus had to choose to sail past this, a whirlpool.

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Charybdis

75
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Odysseus had to choose to sail past her, A woman that Posideon’s wife turned into a monster, has seven wolf heads attached to her.

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Scylla

76
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Who killed the rest of Odysseus’s crew after they ate cattle of the Son God?

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Zeus

77
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Odysseus stayed with her for 7 years.

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Calypso

78
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The island of the king that brought Odysseus back to Ithica?

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Phaeacia

79
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Stalled the people of Ithica from getting a new king by saying she has to prepare for her father-in-laws funeral?

A

Penelope

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