Week 10, Chpt 20, 21 Flashcards
Oath of Tyndarus
Uphold the wedding of Helen and Menelaus
Why did Hera offer to take care of all of the details for Thetis’s wedding?
Because Zeus fell in love with Thetis but decided against sleeping with her after hearing Prometheus’s warnings.
Eris
Personification of strife
How did Eris distrupt Thetis’s wedding?
She rolled a golden apple into the wedding with a tag attached that said, “to the fairest”. Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera fought over the apple.
What did the goddesses offer Paris to be named the fairest?
Hera: Dominion over the world
Athena: A glorious military career
Aphrodite: The most beautiful woman in the world
Who is the most beautiful woman in the world?
Helen
What caused Menelaus to appeal to Agamemnon to invoke the oath of Tyndarus?
Paris stole Helen from Menelaus.
According to Calchas the seer, what did the Greeks need to succeed at Troy?
Achilles
Timé
Honour
Gerās
Spoils of war
What was the main theme of the Illiad?
Achilles’s rage
Who is Achilles’ best friend?
Patroclus
What turns Achilles into a rageful demon and sends him back into war?
The death of Patroclus.
What was Hector’s final request before Achilles killed him?
That his body be given to his parents.
Who helps Paris kill Achilles?
Apollo
Who came up with the idea for the trojan horse?
Odysseus
Who was the priest who had sex in Poseidon’s temple and invoked the wrath of Poseidon, leading the trojans to believe they must take the horse as an offering?
Laocoön
Who killed King Priam at the altar of Zeus?
Neoptolemus
Why does Athena send a storm to destroy the greek fleet?
Ajax raped Cassandra as she clung to the statue of Athena.
Who was Hector’s son?
Astyanax, he was ordered to be killed by Odysseus
