Quiz 1 Flashcards
Describe the dream of Hecuba and it’s symbolism
Hecuba dreamed her son would burn down Troy and Paris did end up being responsible for the war that caused Troy to burn.
Who are the 3 goddesses who claimed the golden apple?
Aphrodite, Hera and Athene
How did Thetis try to cheat the fates and protect her son?
She dipped him in the River Styx to make him immortal
Name two ways in which Paris wronged Menelaus
He allowed Menelaus to welcome him in his home knowing and was rude, and he stole Helen
How did Agamemnon get a fair wind to sail from Aulis to Troy?
He sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis
“For the fairest” who is the fairest?
Aphrodite
Who said “what is the life of one child against the welfare of all”
Priam
Who said “ Hector’s gift is the prowess of war. Mine is mere grace and beauty..”
Paris
Who said “Must get on with the plowing. Must be done by dark.”
Odysseus
Who said “I will buy the sword”
Achilles
Who said “ we are indeed in the gods I’ll favor. It is better that we go home.”
Calchas
Who said “I will repay you for this hour if it takes me 10 years of waiting.”
Clytemnestra
Thetis
Mother if Achilles; sea nymph
Hecuba
Queen of Troy
Menelaus
Brother of agememnon; king of Sparta
