Gods and Goddesses
Achilles and His Rage
Trojan War Trivia
Who Said It?
Themes
100
Who is the god/goddess that controls Helen's fate?
Aphrodite
100
What is Achilles fate if he goes into battle?
Short life - Remembered for the ages
100
Why did Paris's parents send him to live in the woods?
Soothsayer foretold he would burn Troy
100
I am the daughter of the god of war!
Penthesilia
100

We typically see this goddess illustrating excessive pride to keep Helen in Troy

Aphrodite

200
Who is the god/goddess that promises Thetis of the Silver Feet a Trojan victory?
Zeus
200
Why is Achilles refusing to fight?
Agamemnon stole Briseis.
200
Who threw the golden apple "to the fairest" on the table?
Eris
200
If you go back, it is your death and you will not return to us again!
Andromache
200

This character demonstrates rage when he yells "Fire! Bring fire for the Black Ships"

Hector

300

Who is the god/goddess that Queen Hecuba must gather her women and go to pray to in her temple?

Athena

300

Who is Achilles' sword brother that wears his armor in battle?

Patroclus

300
Why did Paris go to Greece?
To see Helen of the Fair Cheeks
300

Lend me your armor and your chariot and horses, and let me lead out the Myrmidons in your stead.

Patroclus

300
When the gods and goddess get involved
fate vs. free will
400
Who is the god/goddess that wraps Hector's body in a protective shield
Apollo
400
Who delivers the omen that Paris will slay Achilles?
Hector
400
How does Aphrodite help Paris in his single combat with Menelaus?
Invisibility cloak
400

I swear to you on all the gods that I will tell to no other man the thing that you have just told me.

Odysseus

400

The theme of this quote:

It is not for their own folly that they die, but for the ill-doing of one man; and he has already offered you full amends- which you refused.

Pride

500
Who is the god/goddess that accompanies Priam as he goes to retrieve his son's body?
Hermes
500
Why does Achilles begin to fight again?
Vengeance for Patroclus
500

Who are the three characters that devised the "wooden horse" plan?

Calchas, Odysseus, Athena

500
You are much his size, and wearing his armor, you could give the Trojans to think that Achilles himself had returned to the fight
Nestor
500

The theme of this quote:

He offered a formal bargain to end the war one way or the other by fighting Menelaus.  A fight to the death.

Glory of War

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