Persephone and Hades
Theseus and the Minotaur
The Iliad
Achilles
The Belly of the Beast
100

Persephone is the daughter of this goddess.

Demeter

100

Theseus travels to this island to face the Minotaur.

Crete

100

This war takes place between the Greeks and the Trojans.

The Trojan War

100

Achilles is a famous Greek

Warrior / soldier / hero

100

Odysseus and the Greeks hide inside this object.

The Trojan Horse / wooden horse

200

Hades is the Greek god of this place.

The Underworld

200

The Minotaur is half man and half this animal

A bull

200

This Greek hero is the central figure of The Iliad.

Achilles

200

Achilles’ one vulnerable body part is his .

Heel

200

There are this many Greeks hiding inside the horse in Fry’s extract.

Thirty / 30

300

Persephone eats these seeds, tying her to the Underworld.

Pomegranate seeds

300

Ariadne gives Theseus this object so he can find his way out

Thread / a ball of thread

300

Paris gives the golden apple to this goddess.

Aphrodite

300

Achilles’ close friend, whose death causes his grief and rage, is

Patroclus

300

The men are “crammed in as tight as” these things in a jar.

Olives

400

Persephone spends part of each year in this place.

The Underworld

400

Theseus kills the Minotaur inside this confusing structure

The Labyrinth

400

The city the Greeks are trying to defeat is .

Troy

400

In Elizabeth Cook’s poem, Ajax staggers under the weight of Achilles’

Body / corpse / carcass

400

The light entering the horse is compared to white .

Needles

500

Demeter causes crops to stop growing because she is grieving for this person.

Persephone

500

Theseus uses Ariadne’s thread to escape after doing this.

Killing the Minotaur

500

The goddess who supports the Greeks and helps Odysseus is .

Athena

500

Achilles is killed when Paris shoots him with an arrow in his .

Heel

500

Odysseus worries the Trojans may destroy the horse with axes or this.


Fire