Trojan War Flashcards
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What Spartan woman does Zeus seduce in the form of a swan?
Leda
In what form does Zeus seduce Leda?
Swan
What king of Sparta is the husband of Leda?
Tyndareus
Who are the four children of Leda?
Castor, Pollux (Polydeuces), Helen, & Clytemnestra
What two children of Leda are said to be children of Zeus?
Pollux & Helen
What two children of Leda are said to be children of Tyndareus?
Castor & Clytemnestra
What was the Oath of Tyndareus?
Made every Greek bachelor promise to protect Helen
Who gave Tyndareus the idea to make every Greek bachelor swear an oath to protect Helen?
Odysseus
Whom did Tyndareus choose to be the husband of Helen?
Menelaus
Of what city were Menelaus and Helen king and queen?
Sparta
Who was king of Troy during the Trojan War?
Priam
Who was the queen of Troy during the Trojan War?
Hecuba
What dream did Hecuba have before giving birth to Paris?
That she gave birth to a torch
What did Priam and Hecuba do to the infant Paris because of Hecuba’s dream?
Abandoned him on Mt. Ida
On what mountain did Priam and Hecuba abandon Paris?
Mt. Ida
What type of animal raised Paris?
Bear
To whose wedding were almost all the gods and goddesses invited?
Peleus and Thetis’s
Who is the son of Peleus and Thetis?
Achilles
Who was the lone goddess not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?
Eris
Of what was Eris the goddess?
Discord
What did Eris throw into the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?
A golden apple
What was inscribed on the golden apple which Eris threw into the midst of the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?
To the fairest
What three goddesses immediately wanted the golden apple thrown by Eris?
Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite
Whom did Zeus ask to make the judgment over the “fairest” goddess?
Paris
Which goddess did Paris deem “the fairest” and give the golden apple?
Aphrodite
Whose face is said to have launched 1000 ships?
Helen’s
Who feigned madness in order to avoid conscription into the Trojan War?
Odysseus
How did Odysseus try to feign madness to avoid conscription into the Trojan War?
Sowed his field with salt
Who tricked Odysseus by putting Telemachus in front of his plow?
Palamedes
Who was disguised as a palace girl at the court of king Lycomedes to avoid conscription into the Trojan War?
Achilles
What did Achilles grab from Odysseus who then deduced Achilles’s feminine disguise?
A dagger
From what port were the Greeks sailing to Troy?
Aulis
After he killed a deer sacred to Artemis, who decided his daughter Iphigenia would be a suitable sacrifice to appease the goddess?
Agamemnon
What daughter of his did Agamemnon attempt to sacrifice to Artemis?
Iphigenia
Agamemnon tricked his daughter Iphigenia into being sacrificed by claiming she would marry what man?
Achilles
What man’s wound could only be healed by its source, the spear of Achilles?
Telephus
Who suffered a snake bite that smelled so bad that the Greeks abandoned him on Lemnos?
Philoctetes
What king of Delos had three daughters who had the power to effortlessly produce wine, oil, and corn?
Anius
What king of Mycenae was the leader of the Greek forces at Troy?
Agamemnon
Who was the brother of Agamemnon?
Menelaus
Who was the brother of Menelaus?
Agamemnon
What Greek at Troy was a wily and cunning king of Ithaca?
Odysseus
What Greek at Troy was a very old king of Pylos?
Nestor
What Greek at Troy was the strongest of all the Greeks?
Achilles
What Greek at Troy was dipped in the River Styx by his mom Thetis?
Achilles
What two Greeks at Troy were healers and the sons of Asclepius?
Machaon and Podalerius
What child of Priam and Hecuba was the leader of the Trojan forces during the Trojan War?
Hector
What child of Priam and Hecuba was the lover of Helen?
Paris
What child of Priam and Hecuba was a priestess who was cursed by Apollo never to be trusted.
Cassandra
What Trojan soldier was the son of Anchises and Aphrodite
Aeneas
What two Greeks first tried to broker a peace deal with Priam before the Trojan War?
Odysseus and Menelaus
What Trojan elder welcomes Odysseus and Menelaus into his home after their attempt at peace?
Antenor
Who shrewdly jumped on his shield to bypass the prophecy that the first Greek soldier to touch Trojan soil would be first to die?
Odysseus
What Greek was the first to touch Trojan soil and was the first Greek to die at Troy?
Protesilaus
What concubine did Agamemnon originally take for himself before her father Chryses begged for her back?
Chryseis
Who priest of Apollo Smintheus begged Agamemnon for his daughter back?
Chryses
Gods will often have nicknames called epithets to denote special properties about them. What does the epithet ‘Smintheus’ mean about Apollo?
God of Mice
What concubine of Achilles did Agamemnon take because he lost Chryseis himself?
Briseis
What goddess restrains Achilles from killing Agamemnon after he took his concubine Briseis from him?
Athena
What god appears to Agamemnon in the form of Nestor to tell him it’s finally time to go fight at Troy?
Zeus
What two men (the two love interests of Helen) compete in solo combat to end the war?
Menelaus and Paris
When Menelaus is clearly beating Paris in solo combat, what goddess whisks away Paris to be bealed at Troy?
Aphrodite
Following the solo combat between Menelaus and Paris, what goddess accepts nothing less than the destruction of Troy and asks Zeus to keep the fighting going?
Hera
What goddess convinces Pandarus to fire an arrow at the Greeks, breaking the truce.
Athena
What Trojan does Athena convince to fire an arrow at the Greeks, breaking the truce?
Pandarus
In Book V of the Iliad, what Greek soldier has an ‘aristeia’ in which he wounds both Ares and Aphrodite?
Diomedes
Who gives Diomedes a magical boon that allows him to wound deities?
Athena
What two deities does Diomedes wound during his ‘aristeia’?
Ares and Aphrodite
With what Trojan soldier does Diomedes trade armor since their grandfathers had been friends years before?
Glaucus
Who is the wife of Hector?
Andromache
What son of Hector shrunk back towards his mother Andromache out of fear of his dad’s helmet?
Astyanax / Scamandrius
What two warriors fought in solo combat until nightfall when the heralds Talthybius and Eurybates called it a draw
Ajax the Greater and Hector
What tutor of Achilles teams up with Odysseus and Ajax to convince Achilles to rejoin the war to no avail?
Phoenix
What Trojan spy was promised the horses of Achilles if he spies on the Greeks, a deed for which he was captured and killed by Odysseus and Diomedes?
Dolon
What two Greeks captured and killed the Trojan spy Dolon?
Odysseus and Diomedes
What Thracian king had horses who were prophesied to bring victory to Troy should they eat Trojan grass?
Rhesus
What two Greeks kill Rhesus and take his horses?
Odysseus and Diomedes
What close friend of Achilles took Achilles’s armor and led the Myrmidons into battle himself?
Patroclus
What son of Zeus does Patroclus kill while wearing the armor of Achilles?
Sarpedon
What happens after Patroclus kills Sarpedon?
Zeus makes the sky rain blood
Who spots Patroclus wearing the armor of Achilles and kills him swiftly?
Hector
Who becomes so enraged at the death of Patroclus that he finally rejoins the battlefield?
Achilles
What river near Troy gets angry at Achilles for clogging it up with bodies of fallen Trojans?
Scamander
What Trojan does Achilles chase three times around the walls of Troy before killing him?
Hector
What Greek chases Hector three times around the walls of Troy before killing him?
Achilles
Who enters the Greek camp to ask Achilles for Hector’s body back?
Priam
What god accompanies Priam to the Greek camp to ask for Hector’s body back?
Hermes
What Amazonian queen does Achilles kill and fall in love with soon after?
Penthesilea
What Greek kills the Amazonian queen Penthesilea and falls in love with her soon after?
Achilles
What bow-legged, ugly Greek makes fun of Achilles for falling in love with Penthesilea’s corpse, for which Achilles swiftly kills him?
Thersites
What Trojan shoots Achilles with an arrow into his heel, killing him?
Paris
What Greek is wounded in the heel by an arrow fired by Paris?
Achilles
What god helped Paris fire the arrow that kills Achilles?
Apollo
What two Greeks contend over the armor of Achilles?
Odysseus and Ajax the Greater
Between Odysseus and Ajax the Greater, who wins the vote to win the armor of Achilles?
Odysseus
What Trojan priest is kidnapped by Odysseus and reveals to him four steps required for the Greeks to win?
Helenus
Helenus reveals to Odysseus four steps required for the Greeks to defeat the Trojans. What son of Achilles must the Greeks bring to Troy?
Neoptolemus
Who is the father of Neoptolemus?
Achilles
Helenus reveals to Odysseus four steps required for the Greeks to defeat the Trojans. Whose bones must the Greeks bring to Troy?
Pelops’s
Helenus reveals to Odysseus four steps required for the Greeks to defeat the Trojans. They must acquire the bow of Heracles owned by what man who had been left on Lemnos due to a smelly wound?
Philoctetes
Helenus reveals to Odysseus four steps required for the Greeks to defeat the Trojans. They must steal what statue of Athena?
Palladium
Of what goddess was the Palladium a statue?
Athena
What two Greeks steal the Palladium?
Odysseus and Diomedes
What Greek mortally wounds Paris?
Philoctetes
After Paris is mortally wounded by Philoctetes, he asks for help from what nymph, his first wife before Helen?
Oenone
After the death of Paris, what brother of his marries Helen?
Deiphobus
What Greek comes up with the idea of the Trojan Horse?
Odysseus
While Odysseus comes up with the idea of the Trojan Horse, what Greek actually constructs it?
Epeius
What Greek is left outside of the Trojan Horse to pretend that the Greeks had abandoned him?
Sinon
What Trojan priest “fears the Greeks even bearing gifts” and throws a spear into the stomach of the wooden horse?
Laocoon
Of what god was Laocoon a priest?
Poseidon
Two of what type of animal emerge from the sea and kill Laocoon and his children?
Snake
Who walks around the Trojan Horse and imitates the voices of the wives of Greek soldiers?
Helen
What “new soldier” kills Priam in the final sack of Troy?
Neoptolemus
What Trojan prince, and now husband of Helen, does Menelaus kill in the final sack of Troy?
Deiphobus
What young child of Hector and Andromache does Odysseus fling from the walls of Troy during the final sack of Troy?
Astyanax / Scamandrius
What Greek chieftain flings Astyanax from the walls of Troy to ensure no future Trojan will grow up with a hatred for Troy?
Odysseus
What Trojan elder is spared from the slaughter at the end of the Trojan War because he graciously welcomed Odysseus and Diomedes into his home?
Antenor
What Trojan flees the sack of Troy with a group of refugees to found a new civilization in Italy?
Aeneas
What wife of Aeneas did he leave behind in his escape from Troy?
Creusa
What son of Aeneas left Troy with him?
Iulus / Ascanius
What father of Aeneas did he carry out of the burning city of Troy?
Anchises
