The Mortals
Who is his wife?
The goddess of discord threw a golden apple into the wedding banquet of King Peleus and Thetis to create chaos because she was not invited.
Who is Eris?
Agamemnon lies to his wife saying his daughter, Iphigenia, will be married to this famous Greek. However, Iphigenia is to be sacrificed.
Who is Achilles?
Agamemnon, the Greek commander, has taken Chryseis, the daughter of a god's priest as a war prize. Agamemnon refuses to return her to her father. The priest prays to the god who in turn sends fiery arrows upon the Greeks causing them to sicken and die.
Who is Apollo?
This man is thought to be the author of the Trojan War?
Who is Homer?
The battle rages on until one day, it stops suddenly. Both armies draw back and this Trojan prince and the King of Sparta face each other.
Who are Paris and Menelaus?
This god was asked to judge "a beauty contest" between the goddesses Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
Who is Zeus?
This nymph is angered by the Greek warrior Achilles' humiliation after losing his "war prize", so she now sides with the Trojans.
Who is Thetis?
This event is the cause of conflict between Agamemnon and Achilles.
What is Agamemnon's taking Briseis, Achilles "war prize"?
Name the great work in which you can find the Trojan War.
What is the Illiad?
The Greek army is powerful, but Troy also has many mighty warriors. The son of the Trojan King Priam and Queen Hecuba is a brave prince. Like the Trojan prince, the greatest Greek warrior knows he is fated to die before the end of the war. “Both heroes fought under the shadow of certain death,” one while attacking the famous walled city, the other while defending it.
Who are Hector and Achilles?
Name Leda's daughter who figures prominently in the epic.
Who is Helen?
Achilles refuses to fight because of the perceived injustice levied against him by Agamemnon. Without Achilles, the Greeks are at a disadvantage. This god wants to influence the outcome covertly, so he sends “a lying dream to Agamemnon promising him victory if he attacked.”
Who is Zeus?
This god is asked to make special armor for Achilles after his friend dies using his armor.
Who is Hephaestus?
Name the time period in which the Trojan War was first performed.
What is the 7th, 8th or 9th century BCE ( around 800- 1000 BCE)?
This Greek warrior pretends to be Achilles by wearing his armor in battle. He is killed by Hector.
Who is Patroclus?
This goddess does not favor the Greeks because one of them has killed her beloved hare.
Who is Artemis?
To change the tide of the Trojan War to favor the Greeks, this goddess seduces Zeus and gives him a sleeping potion.
Who is Hera?
Disgraced, because Achilles' armor was awarded to Odysseus, this Greek warrior plotted to kill Agamemnon and Menelaus thinking they were the reason he was not given Achilles’s arms. The goddess, Athena, struck him with madness, and he killed all the cattle thinking he was killing Agamemnon and Menelaus. When he regained his wits, he took his own life realizing he was “hateful to gods and man”.
Who is Ajax?
The last part of the following quote is an example of what literary device.
The Greeks are desperate to sail, “The savage warriors, battle-mad.” After Iphegenia is slain on the altar, the north wind stops, and the army sets sail, “but the evil price they paid was bound some day to bring evil down upon them.”
What is foreshadowing?
Achilles died at the gates of Troy when this Trojan Prince shot an arrow guided by this god.
Who are Paris and Apollo?
Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera all offer bribes to the mortal judge of their "beauty contest". Name the three bribes and who offered them.
Who are Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera?
Aphrodite - Offers the most beautiful woman in the world.
Athena - Offers war victories over the Greeks.
Hera - Offers rulership of all of Asia and Europe
Hector refuses to leave the battlefield despite the pleas of his parents, King Priam and Queen Hecuba. Hector is tricked by this goddess into thinking his brother, Deiphobus is fighting beside him.
Who is Athena?
Following the Greek warriors defeat over the Trojans thanks to Odysseus' wiley suggestion of the large wooden horse carrying the Greek Army inside the gates of Troy. The Greeks enslaved these people.
Who are the Trojan women?
Paris, Prince of Troy, died due to wounds caused by one of the great hero’s arrows. Only this nymph could help him. However, she refused to help him because he abandoned her years before.
Who is Oenone?