House of Atreus
Terminology
Trojan War
Trojan People
Mystery
100
kills his son and feeds him to the god
Who is Tantalus
100
long narrative poem
What is an epic
100
she threw the golden apple into the wedding banquet
Who is Discord
100
king of Troy
Who is Priam
100
mother of Achilles (a sea nymph)
Who is Thetis
200
Restored by the gods but has an ivory shoulder
Who is Pelops
200
short repeated phrase
What is an epithet
200
three goddess who fought over the apple
Who are Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera
200
defender of Troy
Who is Hector
200
river styx
Where is the place that Ahilles was dipped as a baby to create his invincibility
300
Sacrifices Iphigenia so the Greeks can get out of the Bay of Aulis
Who is Agamemnon
300
an extended comparison between a common every day event or thing and an epic event
What is an epic simile
300
attempted to deceive Agamemnon and acted crazy to avoid going to war
Who is Odysseus
300
Priestess of Troy and neice of the king
Who is Briseis
300
abducts Helen from Menelaus
Who is Paris
400
has an affair with Atreus' wife
Who is Thyestes
400
calling for divine inspiration
What is the invocation of the muse
400
His refusal to return Chryseis caused Apollo to plague the Greek Army
Who is Agamemnon
400
wife of Hector
Who is Andromache
400
the face that launched a 1000 ships
Who is Helen
500
killed Niobe's 14 children
Who are Apollo and Artemis
500
characteristics of the epic
What are serious tone, supernatural intervention, epic hero, vast setting, contains adventure
500
god/goddess helped guide Paris' arrow to Achilles foot
Who is Aphrodite
500
son of Hector
Who is Astynax
500
second in command of the Myrmidons
Who is Eudoris
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