Gods and Goddesses
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What and Why
100

Forged Achilles' armor

Who is Hephaestus?

100

The oldest epic

What is Gilgamesh?

100

This person is the reason for the pestilence

Who is Agamemnon?

100

He knows reason for pestilence

Why Calchas asks for Achilles' protection?

200

She calms Achilles' temper

Who is Athene?

200

A well-known Anglo-Saxon epic

What is Beowulf

200

This person borrows Achilles' armor

Who is Patroclus?

200

An oath to allow the dead body to be honored

What oath does Hector ask Achilles to swear before their combat?

300

The god that abandons Hector right before his battle with Achilles

Who is Apollo?

300

An epic by Homer about the Trojan War

What is The Iliad?

300

This is Hector's son

Who is Astyanax?

300

To ask for his son's body so he can have a proper burial

Why does Priam go to Achilles' hut?

400

The mother of Achilles

Who is Thetis?

400

The longest epic poem

What is the Mahabharata?

400

Refuses Apollo's priest who wants to ransom his daughter

Who is Agamemnon?

400

They will not fight for 11 days

What truce do Achilles and Priam agree upon?

500

Gives Achilles a weapon

Who is Athene?

500

He wrote The Aeneid

Who is Virgil?

500

The name of Achilles' soldiers

Who are Myrmidons?

500

He does not like Agamemnon's decision to take his slave girl

Why does Achilles say he will no longer fight?

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