Mythology Test 2 Flashcards
City of Troy is located in which modern day country
Turkey
Who must Agamemnon sacrifice in order to get winds to sail for Troy?
Iphigenia
Who is the God of Plagues?
Apollo
Whose wedding is disrupted by apple throwing?
Thetis
Who did Tyndareus (Helen’s legal dad) offend?
Aphrodite (so she cursed him)
Which is not a word used as a general reference to the Greeks in the iliad?
Dardanians
Who offered Paris to be ruler of Asia?
Hera
Who is Aeneas’ mom?
Aphrodite (she wanted to make sure he’d survive the fall of Troy to take his descendants to Italy, who then founded Rome)
Where was Nestor the king of?
King of Pylos
The Troy of the iliad is
Troy VIIa (the one that falls)
Who convinces the Greeks not to leave Troy after Agamemnon’s speech?
Nestor and Odysseus
When a young girl, Helen of Troy is kidnapped by who?
Theseus
Agamemnon refused to give back Apollo’s priest his daughter, named
Chryseïs
Agamemnon’s seer at Aulis (his prophet’s name):
Calchas
The Aristeia would be part of which interpretive mode:
Structuralism
Anything with steps is:
Structuralism
Amalgamation of different regions is called
Syncretism
Which of the following is not true about the fights that take place among the Olympians?
Athena beats down Artemis
Who DOES Athena beat in the fights among the Olympians?
Aphrodite (by punching her in the breast)
Achilles kills her and then falls in love with her:
Penthesilea
Who wrote the code of the streets?
Anderson
Helen of Troy’s biological parents:
Zeus and Leda
Briefly describe argument between Hector and Paris
Hector is angry with Paris because he (Paris) will not fight with the men who are fighting for him. Paris says he will fight once he has his armor.
Briefly describe fight between Paris and Menelaus
Fighting over Helen - Menelaus’ wife. To establish peace between the Trojans and Achaeans.
Aftermath of fight between Paris and Menelaus
Aphrodite saves Paris.
Athena tricks a Trojan archer into shooting an arrow at:
Menelaus
Helen’s suitors swear an oath to aid whomever is chosen to marry her, whose idea was this?
Odysseus
Which of the following Gods is not aligned with the Greeks?
Apollo
Who is Achilles’ tutor?
Chiron
Step by step analysis of literary berserking:
Aristeia
What proves the rightful king of Mycenae in the generation after Pelops?
The possession of a gold-fleece ram
Hippodamia’s chariot-racing father
Oenomaus
For solving Tyndareus’ problem of deadly suitors, who is promised as payment?
Penelope
Which is Hera’ bribe at the judgment of Paris?
Master of all of Asia
Who adopts Patroclus?
Peleus
Who is Aegisthus’ mom?
Pelopia
Who does Hector kill?
Patroclus
Who kills Hector?
Achilles
Athena appears as this person to Hector in order to convince him to stand and fight Achilles:
Deiphobus
Who curses Pelops?
Myrtilus
Film clip from this movie was most similar to the argument between Achilles and Agamemnon?
8 Mile
Athena gets a person to shoot an arrow and break the truce after Paris and Menelaus’ duel:
Pandarus
Is NOT present during the judgment of Paris
Artemis
____ is about to kill Achilles, but is stopped by ____
Xanthus, Hephaestus
Why does Xanthus want to kill Achilles?
because he is polluting the river with bodies (the first environmental argument)
Why does Hephaestus stop Xanthus from killing Achilles?
Hera sent him because she wants Troy to fall
Hector’s son, who will be thrown off a rampart to his death after Troy falls:
Astanyx
Who rapes Pelopia?
Thyestes
Who is a product of the rape of Pelopia?
Agathus
Leda and the Swan (describing her rape) was written by:
Yeats
What is the order of the Aristeia?
