exam 4 Flashcards
Tried to feed the gods his son’s arm.
Tantalus
the substance that flows through a gods body instead of blood
Ichor
gods drink… and eat…
Nectar and Ambrosia
Tantalus’s son, beat a king in a chariot race by putting beeswax in the wheel of his opponent.
Pelos
Had to eternally push a rock up a hill
Sisyphus
Pelos married…
Hippodamia
Had a super fast chariot, jumped off when it broke but the king died on it.
Myrtilus
Pelos pushed him off a cliff because he treid to rape his wife, while he was falling, cursed Pelos’s family
Myrtilus
Son’s of Pelos
Atreus and Thyestes
Who did gave Atreus a golden fleece ram
Pan
Who was orignally king of Pelos’s sons and who took over
Atreus was at first then Thyestes took his spot
Who was mad that Thyestes committed adultery
Zeus
Who fed Thyestes his own sons heads
Atreus
Who sleeps with their own daughter to have a son
Thyestes
The name of Thyestes’s son
Aegisthus
Atreus’s sons
Agamemnon and Menelaus
who kills Atreus
Aegisthus
was raped by a swan that was actually Zeus
Leda
Offspring of Leda and Zeus
Helen and Clytemnestra
Who did Clytemnestra marry?
Agamemnon
Who does Helen marry?
Menelaus
Who was kidnapped and who was in charge of finding her?
Helen was kidnapped. Agamemnon chief of search force
Who’s deer did Agamemnon accidentally kill?
Artemis
Who did Artemis want Agamemnon to sacrifice?
his daughter, Iphigenia
Who did Agamemnon tell Iphigenia she was going to marry but instead sacrifices her?
Achilles
Who kills Agamemnon?
Clytemnestra
Who was Clytemnestra and Agamemnon’s son who had to avenge their father?
Orestes and Electra
Who did Orestes and Electra kill?
Their mother Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
Who writes about the Trojan war
Homer
What is the name of the book that Homer writes?
Iliad
Modern man that believed the Trojan war was real?
Heinrich Schliemann
a mermaid sea goddess, was destined to have a son greater than his father. Zeus was concerned so he had her married to someone.
Thetis
The person that Thetis marries
Peleus
Who wasn’t invited to Thetis and Peleus’s wedding?
the goddess of Strife
Person who had to choose which goddess was the most beautiful?
Paris
Who did Paris choose as the most beautiful goddess?
Aphrodite
who persuaded Helen to go to Troy for Paris?
Aphrodite
Greatest Greek hero. Thetis and Peleus’s son.
Achilles
Didnt want to go to war so acted crazy.
Odysseus
King of Troy
Priam
Queen of Troy
Hecuba
Had a dream of a torch burning the city of Troy
Hecuba
Who sent their kid into exposure from Troy
Priam and Hecuba
Who was Priam and Hecuba’s son?
Paris
Greatest Trojan warrior, Paris’s brother, Hecuba and Priam’s son
Hector
Hector’s wife
Andromache
Who took in a slave who was the daughter of a priest of Apollo, which cursed the Greek army?
Agamemnon
Who did Athena appear to stop them from killing Agamemnon?
Achilles
A Greek concept of morally correct behavior
Themis
Achilles’s best friend. Wore his armor in battle. Tried to take on Hector but was defeated.
Patroclus
Who put the fate of Achilles and Hector on a weight?
Zeus
Who asked Achilles for Hector’s body back?
Priam
Who killed Achilles?
Paris
Recovered Achilles’s body and wanted it. Falls on his own sword.
Ajax
Who gets Achilles’ armor
Odysseus
Zeus son who was fated to go to the Underworld.
Sarpedon
Who had the idea to make a big wooden horse to get into Troy?
Odysseus
Who’s son was thrown off of the city walls after the Trojans lost?
Andromache
Who was Hecuba given to as a slave?
Odysseus
Who was given Cassandra as a slave?
Agamemnon
What Trojan escaped from Troy and what is the name of his story?
Aeneas in the Aeneid
Who started Rome and was a member of the Trojan royal family?
Aeneas
What was the story of Odysseus and who wrote it?
Odyssey by Homer
Where did Odysseus start his journey?
Ithica
Who is the wife of Odysseus?
Penelope
If someone ate this, they would forget everything and never leave.
Land of the Lotus-Eaters
A cyclops, son of Posideon, cursed Odysseus to his father Poseidon.
Polyphemus
God of the wind, gave Odysseus a bag of all the winds.
Aeolus
A witch turned Odysseus’s men into pigs, sends Odysseus to the Underworld.
Circe
Who gave Odysseus an antidote to being immune to Circe’s food?
Hermes
Told Odysseus what it was like to be a slave of the Underworld?
Achilles
Odysseus encounters in the Underworld and is told by him that he regrets not dying on the battlefield
Agamemnon
Bird-like women, who’s song was so beautiful that it caused death?
Sirens
Odysseus had to choose to sail past this, a whirlpool.
Charybdis
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.
Scylla
Who killed the rest of Odysseus’s crew after they ate cattle of the Son God?
Zeus
Odysseus stayed with her for 7 years.
Calypso
The island of the king that brought Odysseus back to Ithica?
Phaeacia
Stalled the people of Ithica from getting a new king by saying she has to prepare for her father-in-laws funeral?
Penelope
