The Overview Flashcards
What island was the Golden Fleece held on?
Colchis
What island did the Argo stop at that happened to be chock full of women?
Lemnos
Who was Priam’s most famous wife?
Hecuba
Who was Priam’s nymph lover?
Alexirhoe
What was Priam’s original name, and what did it mean?
Podarces; swift-footed
When was the name Priam given to Podarces?
After the first sacking of Troy by Heracles
What was Paris’ original name?
Alexander
What herdsman did Priam give Paris to with orders to kill the boy?
Agelaus
On what mountain did Agelaus spare Paris?
Mount Ida
What mountain nymph did Paris love on Mount Ida?
Oenone
Who was not invited to the marriage of Thetis and Peleus?
Eris, goddess of discord
Who was the son of Thetis and Peleus?
Achilles
What did Eris throw into the party to incite drama?
A golden apple with inscriptions reading, “To the fairest”
What did Hera offer Paris to choose her as the fairest?
Royal power
What did Athena offer Paris to choose her as the fairest?
Victory in war
What did Aphrodite offer Paris to choose her as the fairest?
The most beautiful woman in the land
Who is Helen’s mom?
Leda
Who is Helen’s biological father, and who was her mortal father?
Zeus; Tyndareus
Who was the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus?
Atreus
Who was the mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus?
Aerope
Who was the father of Aerope and the grandfather of Agamemnon and Menelaus?
Catreus, king of Crete.
Where was Menelaus when Helen got kidnapped?
When Menelaus was out to go to Catreus’ funeral, Helen was left in charge; this made her vulnerable and she was kidnapped.
What man prophesized that if Odysseus left, he’d return 20 years later?
Halitherses
Who was Odysseus’ wife?
Penelope
What was the name of Odysseus’ son?
Telemachus
How did Odysseus pretend to have gone mad?
He plowed his land with salt instead of seeds; yoked a donkey and bull
Who exposed Odysseus as sane, and what land was he the king of?
Palamedes, king of Euboea
What did the king of Euboea do to prove that Odysseus was sane?
He put Odysseus’ son, Telemachus, in front of the plow
What is Palamedes credited with inventing?
mathematics, the dice, and writing
What did Achilles do to hide from being brought into the Trojan war?
Disguised as a woman and hid
Where did Achilles hide as a woman?
Court of Lycomedes of Skyros
What name did Achilles pretend to have?
Pyrhha
What was the name of Achilles’ son with Deidameia?
Neoptolmus
Who did Agamemnon send as ambassadors to Troy?
Odysseus, Palamedes, Menelaus
Who was the father of Penelope?
Icarius
Who was Priam’s sister?
Hesione
Why did Artemis stop the wind from blowing for the Greeks during the beginning of the Trojan war?
Agamemnon killed one of her sacred deer and mocked her for it
What did Agamemnon have to do to get Artemis to grant them with wind?
Sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia
What sea port were the Greeks stuck at due to the lack of wind?
Aulis
What prophet saw Artemis’ message to the Greeks during the Trojan war?
Calchis
Where did Artemis take Iphigenia and why?
the Taurians, to become a priestess
What sign does Calchis see regarding snakes?
He sees a blood red snake eating a nest of sparrowlings along with the mother. From this, he takes that the sons of Priam will go down one by one, but it would take 10 long years.
What happened to Philoctetes during the Trojan war, and what was he carrying?
He was bit by a snake and subsequently abandoned on the island of Lemnos, carrying Hercules’ bow and poisoned arrows
Who was the first Greek to step foot on land in Troy, therefore dying first?
Protestilaus
Who was the father of Protestilaus?
Iphiclus
Who killed Protestilaus?
Hector of Troy
Who was the first challenge Achilles faced on the Trojan battlefield?
Cycnus, a demigod son of Poseidon
How did Achilles kill Cycnus, and what did Cycnus morph into after death?
Strangulation; a swan
What group did Achilles lead during the Trojan War?
Myrmidons, ants from Aegina transformed into men
Who did Cycnus receive his breastplate from?
Hephaestus
Who built the Trojan walls?
Apollo and Poseidon
Who was the father of Deucalion?
Prometheus
Who were the parents of Pyrrha, partner of Deucalion?
Epimetheus and Pandora
How did Deucalion and Pyrrha save the human populus?
They took rocks and put them on their shoulders. When they dropped them afterwards, the rocks sprouted into humans.
What goddess helped Deucalion and Pyrrha?
Themis
Who was Meleager’s mother?
Althaea
Who was Meleager’s father?
Oeneus
What famous wife of Hercules was Meleager’s sister?
Deianira
Why did Artemis send the Calydonian boar?
Calydon’s king, Oeneus, remembered to mention every other god but her!
Who was the Calydonian boat said to be the offspring of?
The Crommyonian sow
Who was envisioned by his mother to burn down Troy?
Paris/Alexander
Who interpreted Hecuba’s nightmare about Paris?
Cassandra
