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What?
100
the worst of the suitors, scorns the rules of hospitality
Who is Antinuos?
100
symbols are a cow and a peacock, offers Paris earthly kingdoms for the golden apple
Who is Hera?
100
the anger of Achilles/ the horrors of war
What is the subject of the Iliad?
100
the leader of the Greek forces/ sacrifices his daughter for favorable winds
Who is Agamemnon?
100
goddess of discord
Who is Eris?
200
mother of Odysseus
Who is Anticlea?
200
goddess of love and beauty
Who is Aphrodite?
200
the kidnapping of Helen
What is the supposed cause of the Trojan War?
200
husband of Helen
Who is Melelaus?
200
says "for the fairest"
What is the golden apple of discord?
300
the suitor who offers restitution and begs for the lives of the other suitors
Who is Eurymachus?
300
goddesses who were patrons of the arts
Who are the nine muses?
300
this happened when Laocoon tried to warn the Trojans not to take the horse into Troy.
What is Poseidon sent a sea serpent to kill him and his sons?
300
king of Troy
Who is Priam?
300
followers first of Achilles, then of Odysseus
Who are the myrmidons?
400
the Iliad's greatest hero
Who is Achilles?
400
goddess of memory, mother of the muses
Who is Mnemosyne?
400
Charon must ferry dead souls across this river
What is the River Styx?
400
chooses Helen as his prize over wisdom and earthly power
Who is Paris?
400
place of eternal punishment
What is Tartarus?
500
a great Trojan hero and a prince of Troy
Who is Hector?
500
god of the winds; tries to help Odysseus reach home
Who is Aeolus?
500
the raid on this island results in men being slaughtered because they disobey Odysseus
What is the island of the Cicones?
500
Achilles's cousin, his death is the cause of Achilles's sinning against the gods regarding Hector's body
Who is Patroclus?
500
paradise for heroes and the good
What are the Elysian Fields?