Dark Age
Iliad Introduction
Epics
100

True or False: Migration to islands was common during the Dark Age of Greece.

True.

100

Eris, goddess of Discord, throws a __________ ___________ into the marriage feast of Thetis and Peleus.

golden apple

100

An epic is a long, narrative ________.

poem

200

True or False: During the Dark Age, bronze began to be used for making weapons and tools instead of iron.

False.

200

__________, the Trojan prince, takes ____________, the wife of Menelaus, back to Troy, sparking the Trojan War between Greeks and Trojans.

Paris; Helen

200

What art form does the Muse, Calliope, preside over? (MUST BE EXACT)

Epic Poetry

300

Name one of the two standard texts for ancient Greek education. 

The Iliad or The Odyssey

300

The goddess who stalls the Greek ships heading to Troy

Artemis

300

"in medias res" means...

"in the middle of things" or "in the middle"

400

The group of Greeks who moved to the western coast of Asia Minor during the Dark Age were called the ____________.

Ionians

400

Who is the father of Iphigenia?

Agamemnon

400

The prayer to the Muse at the beginning of an epic is called the _______________ (MUST BE EXACT).

invocation

500
The other poet (besides Homer) whose work appeared at the end of the Dark Age was named ___________.

Hesiod.

500

The three goddesses who are competing for the "For the Fairest" title.

Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena
500

"Achilleus of the swift feet" is an example of a/an....

epithet