Suited up
Oh Troy!
We Are All Goddesses
Fathers and Sons
It's all Greek to me
200
Depicted in this John Williams Waterhouse painting:
Who are Penelope and the suitors?
200
Home of the Gods and Goddesses
What is Mount Olympus?
200
The "owl-eyed goddess," who "flew away like a bird"
She is sometimes referred to as Pallas
Who is Athena?
200
"May Zeus the son of _______never grant you your true inheritance..."
Who is Cronus?
200
A "complicated man," it is his brilliant idea to construct the wooden horse that is the Greek army's ticket into entering Troy without the Trojans knowing.
Who is Odysseus
400
The friend Odysseus asked to guard his house.
Athena disguises herself as him to meet the suitors.
Who is Mentor?
400
King Priam ruled here
What is Troy?
400
This "great goddess" traps Odysseus in her cave.
Who is Calypso?
400
Lord of Earthquakes, he raged, "unrelenting, because Odysseus destroyed the eye of godlike Polyphemus, his own son".
Who is Poseidon?
400
Hecuba has a dream in which she gives birth to him as a flaming torch, and cause the downfall of this place.
Who is Paris and what is Troy
600
By the artist Pintoricchio, Penelope and the Suitors
DAILY DOUBLE! Phemius, "the man the suitors forced to sing for them," is this and plays "a well-tuned" one of this kind of instrument to strike the chords and "start his lovely song.
What is a bard and what is a lyre
600
DAILY DOUBLE!
The face that launched a thousand ships and where those ships were headed
Who is Helen of Troy? Where is Troy?
600
The Goddess of discord, her wedding gift of a golden apple ultimately brings down the city of Troy.
Who is Eris?
600
The King of Pylos, his son Pisistratus took Telemachus in his carriage to Sparta, the next leg of his trip, and ask Menelaus for news of Odysseus.
Who is Nestor?
600
His son Orestes avenged his murder by killing Aegisthus
Who is Agememnon?
800
DAILY DOUBLE!
Telemachus is angry at the suitors for these reasons.
What is, they are invading his father's house
and pestering his mother to marry them.
800
Where Odysseus is King.
What is Ithaca?
800
Thetis, daughter of the sea god Nereus, is his mother;
She warns him if he chooses to fight at Troy, his name will go down in history, but he won't survive.
Who is Achilles?
800
To bury Laertes, his father, in when he dies, Penelope weaves "this winding-sheet".
Who is Odysseus?
800
This painting by Gavin Hamilton depicts Achilles dragging this Trojan son of Priam's after defeating and killing him in the Trojan War.
Who is Hector?
1000
Until a servant spilled the beans, this is how Penelope was able to keep the suitors at bay and avoid marrying any of them.
What is by telling them she will marry again only when she has finished weaving the cloth that Laertes, Odysseus's father, will be wrapped in when he dies, but unraveling it each night so it is never completed.
1000
This King of Sparta is also Agamemnon's brother
Who is Menelaus?']
1000
So that he will vote her most beautiful of the goddesses,
she (Zeus's jealous wife) bribes Paris by offering him power and rule over all of Asia.
Who is Hera?
1000
Despairing over the invasion his father's house, he says to these ill-behaved men: " you make me so unhappy! This is pointless!"
Who is Telemachus?
1000
Also known by Homer as the Achaeans
Who are the Greeks