LCT33: Troy and the Trojan War (Part 4)

Question 1

Who do the Trojans fear the most? What do they do?

Answer 1

Achilles - remain inside their walls

Question 2

What do the Greeks do instead of charging the Trojan walls?

Answer 2

ruin surrounding towns and islands - seize, loot, prisoners

Question 3

What do “prizes” make up for the greeks?

Answer 3

their “status” in society

Question 4

Who does Agamemnon hold hostage?

Answer 4

daughter of Chryses - a priest of Apollo

Question 5

How does Apollo react to Agamemnon?

Answer 5

sends a plague upon the Greeks

Question 6

How does Agamemnon react to Apollo’s plague? How does Achilles react?

Answer 6

he relents, but takes a prisoner (“prize”) from Achilles who then is enraged

Question 7

Who prevents Achilles from killing Agamemnon?

Answer 7

Athena

Question 8

Who does Achilles turn to?

Answer 8

Thetis - his goddess mother who then turns to Zeus grants her wish

Question 9

What does Achilles do?

Answer 9

withdraws from the war

Question 10

What happens once Achilles withdraws from the war?

Answer 10

the Trojans drive the Greeks back and Agamemnon sends embassy to ask Achilles for help - who refuses

Question 11

What happens to the chief Greek warriors?

Answer 11

wounded one by one –> Odysseus - Diomedes - Agamemnon

Question 12

What does Hector do?

Answer 12

sets fire to some of the Greek ships

Question 13

How does Patroclus feel?

Answer 13

pities his fellow men, ask Achilles permission to fight

Question 14

How does Patroclus fight?

Answer 14

wearing Achilles armor - drives back Trojans

Question 15

What happens to Patroclus

Answer 15

killed by Hector - who takes Achilles armor

Question 16

Who recovers Patroclus’ body?

Answer 16

Ajax the Greater

Question 17

Who helps Achilles before re-entering war?

Answer 17

Thetis (his mother) - asks Hephaistos to make new armor for Achilles and takes the new armor to him

Question 18

What happens after the fight?

Answer 18

After Achilles kills Hector - he drags his corpse behind his chariot for 12 days

Question 19

Who retrieves Hectors body?

Answer 19

his father Priam from Achilles

Question 20

Who are the Trojan reinforcements?

Answer 20

• Penthesileia = amazons
• Memnon = Ethiopians
  both killed by Achilles

Question 21

What happens with Achilles and Penthesileia?

Answer 21

falls in love with her just as he kills her

Question 22

Memnon is the son of who?

Answer 22

Eros

Question 23

Eros’ tears mean

Answer 23

dew

Question 24

Who shoots Achilles?

Answer 24

Paris with the help of Apollo

Question 25

What happened with Achilles body?

Answer 25

fierce battle over it with Ajax the Greater eventually retrieved it with the help of Odysseus

Question 26

Who is awarded the armor of Achilles?

Answer 26

Ajax the Greater/Odysseus

Question 27

Who decided between Ajax and Odysseus?

Answer 27

Agamemnon - Trojan prisoners vote who they fear the most --> Odysseus

Question 28

What happened to Ajax the Greater after the decision was made?

Answer 28

goes briefly insane - slaughters a flock of sheep "his enemies" then commits suicide

Question 29

Who does Odysseus capture? What does he say?

Answer 29

Trojan prophet - three conditions for the fall of Troy - Bow of Heracles - Palladium - Achilles' son

Question 30

Who does Diomedes fetch from Lemnos?

Answer 30

Philoctetes - healed at Troy

Question 31

Who was wounded in battle with Philoctetes? Who does he seek out?

Answer 31

Paris - seeks out his former lover Oinone

Question 32

Oinone's prophecy

Answer 32

"go to Helen and beg her" - Paris dies

Question 33

What happens to Oinone after Paris dies?

Answer 33

see's Paris' dead body, kills herself

Question 34

The Palladium

Answer 34

small wooden statue of Pallas Athena - guarantees Troy's safety as long as it remains in the city

Question 35

Who steals the Palladium?

Answer 35

Diomedes and Odysseus

Question 36

Who's idea was the Trojan horse?

Answer 36

Odysseus

Question 37

Where do the greeks sail away to?

Answer 37

nearby island of Tenedos

Question 38

Who fears the greeks gift?

Answer 38

Cacoon's

Question 39

What does Cacoon's do?

Answer 39

hurls a spear at the horse - he and his sons are suddenly killed by sea snakes

Question 40

What does the Trojans do in response to Cacoon and his sons dying?

Answer 40

pull down part of the wall to bring the horse into the city

Question 41

What happens after the horse is inside city walls?

Answer 41

Trojans hold great victory celebration - Sinon opens the horse, rest of Greeks signaled on Tenedos by signal fire - Troy burns

Question 42

Who kills King Priam?

Answer 42

Neoptolemus - Achilles son

Question 43

What does Cassandra cling to for protection?

Answer 43

statue of Athena

Question 44

What does Ajax the Lesser do?

Answer 44

drags Cassandra away from the statue and rapes her - Athena now angry at all the greeks

Question 45

What happens to Ajax the Lesser?

Answer 45

destroyed by Athena and Poseidon while sailing back home

Question 46

Who does Odysseus hurl from the top of the Trojan wall?

Answer 46

Astyanax - Hector's son

Question 47

Who is Menelaus prepared to kill? Why doesn't he?

Answer 47

Helen - because he is overcome by her beauty | - spares her and escorts her out of Troy

Question 48

What happened to the Trojans when all said and done?

Answer 48

most were killed - women taken into slavery

Question 49

Who escapes Troy?

Answer 49

Aeneas escapes wit some refuges - carries father Anchises out of Troy