Characters
Greece's G.O.A.T. soldier.
Who is Achilles?
A terrifying kind of giant that has only one eyeball in the middle of their forehead.
What is a Cyclops?
The length of time the Greeks laid siege to Troy.
What is ten years?
The length of time it took Odysseus to return to his homeland kingdom of Ithaca.
What is ten years?
The king of the Olympian gods.
Who is Zeus?
Greece's G.O.A.T. strategician, a trickster who took forever to get back home.
Who is Odysseus?
The homeland of Paris; where Paris took Helen, which brought about its destruction at the end of a ten-year war.
What is Troy?
Paris started a war by running off with this person, or kidnapping her -- depending on who you ask.
Who is Helen?
The Phaeacian princess who discovered Odysseus while she was bathing with her handmaidens.
Who is Nausicaa?
The Goddess of wisdom and strategy, who favored Odysseus, and wanted Paris to choose her as the fairest of the gods.
Who is Athena?
The most beautiful woman in the world, she had "the face that launched a thousand ships."
Who is Helen?
The homeland of Odysseus; his kingdom he wishes to return to.
What is Ithaca?
The greatest soldier in Trojan history, he was slain by Achilles.
Who is Hector?
The sorceress who turned Odysseus' men into pigs, but after making a truce, helped Odysseus find his way back home.
Who is Circe?
The queen of the Olympian gods, who wanted Paris to choose her as the fairest of the gods.
Who is Hera?
Who is Paris of Troy?
Greek battle spear -- also the name of an early Olympic sport.
What is a javelin?
Paris was promised the most beautiful woman in the world by this Goddess, if Paris chose her in a beauty contest.
Who is Aphrodite?
The nymph who trapped Odysseus and desperately tried to win his love, even to the point of promising him immortality.
Who is Calypso?
The goddess of beauty, whom Paris chose as the fairest of all the gods.
Who is Aphrodite?
The son of Poseidon, a monster with one eye, who curses Odysseus's journey home.
Who is Polyphemus?
Armored shinguards.
What are greaves?
Not everyone has seen the thriller Macbeth, but every child knows how Macbeth's doorman answers himself with these words when he utters, "Knock, knock."
This Lord led the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade, and is forever remembered in name of what he made his men wear: a knitted sweater that opens in the front.
The father of Polyphemus the Cyclops, and god of the sea.
Who is Poseidon?