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What Spartan woman does Zeus seduce in the form of a swan?

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Leda

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In what form does Zeus seduce Leda?

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Swan

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What king of Sparta is the husband of Leda?

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Tyndareus

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Who are the four children of Leda?

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Castor, Pollux (Polydeuces), Helen, & Clytemnestra

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What two children of Leda are said to be children of Zeus?

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Pollux & Helen

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What two children of Leda are said to be children of Tyndareus?

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Castor & Clytemnestra

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What was the Oath of Tyndareus?

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Made every Greek bachelor promise to protect Helen

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Who gave Tyndareus the idea to make every Greek bachelor swear an oath to protect Helen?

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Odysseus

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Whom did Tyndareus choose to be the husband of Helen?

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Menelaus

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Of what city were Menelaus and Helen king and queen?

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Sparta

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Who was king of Troy during the Trojan War?

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Priam

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Who was the queen of Troy during the Trojan War?

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Hecuba

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What dream did Hecuba have before giving birth to Paris?

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That she gave birth to a torch

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What did Priam and Hecuba do to the infant Paris because of Hecuba’s dream?

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Abandoned him on Mt. Ida

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On what mountain did Priam and Hecuba abandon Paris?

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Mt. Ida

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What type of animal raised Paris?

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Bear

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To whose wedding were almost all the gods and goddesses invited?

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Peleus and Thetis’s

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Who is the son of Peleus and Thetis?

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Achilles

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Who was the lone goddess not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?

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Eris

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Of what was Eris the goddess?

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Discord

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What did Eris throw into the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?

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A golden apple

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What was inscribed on the golden apple which Eris threw into the midst of the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?

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To the fairest

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What three goddesses immediately wanted the golden apple thrown by Eris?

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Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite

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Whom did Zeus ask to make the judgment over the “fairest” goddess?

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Paris

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Which goddess did Paris deem “the fairest” and give the golden apple?

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Aphrodite

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26
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Whose face is said to have launched 1000 ships?

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Helen’s

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Who feigned madness in order to avoid conscription into the Trojan War?

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Odysseus

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How did Odysseus try to feign madness to avoid conscription into the Trojan War?

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Sowed his field with salt

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Who tricked Odysseus by putting Telemachus in front of his plow?

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Palamedes

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30
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Who was disguised as a palace girl at the court of king Lycomedes to avoid conscription into the Trojan War?

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Achilles

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What did Achilles grab from Odysseus who then deduced Achilles’s feminine disguise?

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A dagger

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32
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From what port were the Greeks sailing to Troy?

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Aulis

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After he killed a deer sacred to Artemis, who decided his daughter Iphigenia would be a suitable sacrifice to appease the goddess?

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Agamemnon

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What daughter of his did Agamemnon attempt to sacrifice to Artemis?

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Iphigenia

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35
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Agamemnon tricked his daughter Iphigenia into being sacrificed by claiming she would marry what man?

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Achilles

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36
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What man’s wound could only be healed by its source, the spear of Achilles?

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Telephus

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Who suffered a snake bite that smelled so bad that the Greeks abandoned him on Lemnos?

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Philoctetes

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What king of Delos had three daughters who had the power to effortlessly produce wine, oil, and corn?

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Anius

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What king of Mycenae was the leader of the Greek forces at Troy?

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Agamemnon

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Who was the brother of Agamemnon?

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Menelaus

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41
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Who was the brother of Menelaus?

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Agamemnon

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What Greek at Troy was a wily and cunning king of Ithaca?

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Odysseus

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What Greek at Troy was a very old king of Pylos?

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Nestor

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44
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What Greek at Troy was the strongest of all the Greeks?

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Achilles

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45
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What Greek at Troy was dipped in the River Styx by his mom Thetis?

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Achilles

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What two Greeks at Troy were healers and the sons of Asclepius?

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Machaon and Podalerius

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What child of Priam and Hecuba was the leader of the Trojan forces during the Trojan War?

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Hector

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What child of Priam and Hecuba was the lover of Helen?

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Paris

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49
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What child of Priam and Hecuba was a priestess who was cursed by Apollo never to be trusted.

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Cassandra

50
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What Trojan soldier was the son of Anchises and Aphrodite

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Aeneas

51
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What two Greeks first tried to broker a peace deal with Priam before the Trojan War?

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Odysseus and Menelaus

52
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What Trojan elder welcomes Odysseus and Menelaus into his home after their attempt at peace?

A

Antenor

53
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Who shrewdly jumped on his shield to bypass the prophecy that the first Greek soldier to touch Trojan soil would be first to die?

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Odysseus

54
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What Greek was the first to touch Trojan soil and was the first Greek to die at Troy?

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Protesilaus

55
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What concubine did Agamemnon originally take for himself before her father Chryses begged for her back?

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Chryseis

56
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Who priest of Apollo Smintheus begged Agamemnon for his daughter back?

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Chryses

57
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Gods will often have nicknames called epithets to denote special properties about them. What does the epithet ‘Smintheus’ mean about Apollo?

A

God of Mice

58
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What concubine of Achilles did Agamemnon take because he lost Chryseis himself?

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Briseis

59
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What goddess restrains Achilles from killing Agamemnon after he took his concubine Briseis from him?

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Athena

60
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What god appears to Agamemnon in the form of Nestor to tell him it’s finally time to go fight at Troy?

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Zeus

61
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What two men (the two love interests of Helen) compete in solo combat to end the war?

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Menelaus and Paris

62
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When Menelaus is clearly beating Paris in solo combat, what goddess whisks away Paris to be bealed at Troy?

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Aphrodite

63
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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?

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Hera

64
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What goddess convinces Pandarus to fire an arrow at the Greeks, breaking the truce.

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Athena

65
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What Trojan does Athena convince to fire an arrow at the Greeks, breaking the truce?

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Pandarus

66
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In Book V of the Iliad, what Greek soldier has an ‘aristeia’ in which he wounds both Ares and Aphrodite?

A

Diomedes

67
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Who gives Diomedes a magical boon that allows him to wound deities?

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Athena

68
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What two deities does Diomedes wound during his ‘aristeia’?

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Ares and Aphrodite

69
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With what Trojan soldier does Diomedes trade armor since their grandfathers had been friends years before?

A

Glaucus

70
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Who is the wife of Hector?

A

Andromache

71
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What son of Hector shrunk back towards his mother Andromache out of fear of his dad’s helmet?

A

Astyanax / Scamandrius

72
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What two warriors fought in solo combat until nightfall when the heralds Talthybius and Eurybates called it a draw

A

Ajax the Greater and Hector

73
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What tutor of Achilles teams up with Odysseus and Ajax to convince Achilles to rejoin the war to no avail?

A

Phoenix

74
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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?

A

Dolon

75
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What two Greeks captured and killed the Trojan spy Dolon?

A

Odysseus and Diomedes

76
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What Thracian king had horses who were prophesied to bring victory to Troy should they eat Trojan grass?

A

Rhesus

77
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What two Greeks kill Rhesus and take his horses?

A

Odysseus and Diomedes

78
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What close friend of Achilles took Achilles’s armor and led the Myrmidons into battle himself?

A

Patroclus

79
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What son of Zeus does Patroclus kill while wearing the armor of Achilles?

A

Sarpedon

80
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What happens after Patroclus kills Sarpedon?

A

Zeus makes the sky rain blood

81
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Who spots Patroclus wearing the armor of Achilles and kills him swiftly?

A

Hector

82
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Who becomes so enraged at the death of Patroclus that he finally rejoins the battlefield?

A

Achilles

83
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What river near Troy gets angry at Achilles for clogging it up with bodies of fallen Trojans?

A

Scamander

84
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What Trojan does Achilles chase three times around the walls of Troy before killing him?

A

Hector

85
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What Greek chases Hector three times around the walls of Troy before killing him?

A

Achilles

86
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Who enters the Greek camp to ask Achilles for Hector’s body back?

A

Priam

87
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What god accompanies Priam to the Greek camp to ask for Hector’s body back?

A

Hermes

88
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What Amazonian queen does Achilles kill and fall in love with soon after?

A

Penthesilea

89
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What Greek kills the Amazonian queen Penthesilea and falls in love with her soon after?

A

Achilles

90
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What bow-legged, ugly Greek makes fun of Achilles for falling in love with Penthesilea’s corpse, for which Achilles swiftly kills him?

A

Thersites

91
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What Trojan shoots Achilles with an arrow into his heel, killing him?

A

Paris

92
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What Greek is wounded in the heel by an arrow fired by Paris?

A

Achilles

93
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What god helped Paris fire the arrow that kills Achilles?

A

Apollo

94
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What two Greeks contend over the armor of Achilles?

A

Odysseus and Ajax the Greater

95
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Between Odysseus and Ajax the Greater, who wins the vote to win the armor of Achilles?

A

Odysseus

96
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What Trojan priest is kidnapped by Odysseus and reveals to him four steps required for the Greeks to win?

A

Helenus

97
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Helenus reveals to Odysseus four steps required for the Greeks to defeat the Trojans. What son of Achilles must the Greeks bring to Troy?

A

Neoptolemus

98
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Who is the father of Neoptolemus?

A

Achilles

99
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Helenus reveals to Odysseus four steps required for the Greeks to defeat the Trojans. Whose bones must the Greeks bring to Troy?

A

Pelops’s

100
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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?

A

Philoctetes

101
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Helenus reveals to Odysseus four steps required for the Greeks to defeat the Trojans. They must steal what statue of Athena?

A

Palladium

102
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Of what goddess was the Palladium a statue?

A

Athena

103
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What two Greeks steal the Palladium?

A

Odysseus and Diomedes

104
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What Greek mortally wounds Paris?

A

Philoctetes

105
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After Paris is mortally wounded by Philoctetes, he asks for help from what nymph, his first wife before Helen?

A

Oenone

106
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After the death of Paris, what brother of his marries Helen?

A

Deiphobus

107
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What Greek comes up with the idea of the Trojan Horse?

A

Odysseus

108
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While Odysseus comes up with the idea of the Trojan Horse, what Greek actually constructs it?

A

Epeius

109
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What Greek is left outside of the Trojan Horse to pretend that the Greeks had abandoned him?

A

Sinon

110
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What Trojan priest “fears the Greeks even bearing gifts” and throws a spear into the stomach of the wooden horse?

A

Laocoon

111
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Of what god was Laocoon a priest?

A

Poseidon

112
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Two of what type of animal emerge from the sea and kill Laocoon and his children?

A

Snake

113
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Who walks around the Trojan Horse and imitates the voices of the wives of Greek soldiers?

A

Helen

114
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What “new soldier” kills Priam in the final sack of Troy?

A

Neoptolemus

115
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What Trojan prince, and now husband of Helen, does Menelaus kill in the final sack of Troy?

A

Deiphobus

116
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What young child of Hector and Andromache does Odysseus fling from the walls of Troy during the final sack of Troy?

A

Astyanax / Scamandrius

117
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What Greek chieftain flings Astyanax from the walls of Troy to ensure no future Trojan will grow up with a hatred for Troy?

A

Odysseus

118
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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?

A

Antenor

119
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What Trojan flees the sack of Troy with a group of refugees to found a new civilization in Italy?

A

Aeneas

120
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What wife of Aeneas did he leave behind in his escape from Troy?

A

Creusa

121
Q

What son of Aeneas left Troy with him?

A

Iulus / Ascanius

122
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What father of Aeneas did he carry out of the burning city of Troy?

A

Anchises

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