Gods and Goddesses
King of the gods and lord of the skies.
Who is Zeus?
This Greek king's wife Helen was taken by Paris, starting the Trojan War.
Who is Menelaus?
This Trojan prince started the war by taking Helen from Sparta.
Who is Paris?
This blind Greek poet composed the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
The siege of Troy lasted over this many years.
What are 10 years?
This goddess of wisdom and war supported the Greeks and defeated Ares by hitting him with a boulder.
Who is Athena?
This clever Greek king came up with the plan for the Trojan Horse.
Who is Odysseus?
This elderly king ruled Troy and refused to surrender even after the Greeks arrived.
Who is King Priam?
This goddess of chaos was not invited to a wedding, so she threw a golden apple labeled "For the Fairest" to cause trouble.
Who is Eris?
This is what was hidden inside the Trojan Horse?
What are Greek soldiers?
This god of war supported the Trojans but was humiliated when his sister knocked him down and laughed at him.
Who is Ares?
This was the greatest Greek warrior's only weakness—the one spot where he could be wounded.
What is Achilles' heel?
This Trojan prince was the greatest Trojan warrior and was known for fighting to protect his family and city—not for glory.
Who is Hector?
These three goddesses fought over the golden apple and asked Paris to judge which was fairest.
Who are Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite?
The Greeks pretended to leave the Trojan Horse as this kind of offering.
What is a gift from the gods? or What is a trophy of victory?
This goddess of love supported the Trojans because she had promised Helen to Paris.
Who is Aphrodite?
This Greek king was Menelaus's older brother and commanded the entire Greek army of 1,000 ships.
Who is Agamemnon?
In the Iliad, Hector's baby son screamed when he saw his father because he was scared of this piece of armor.
What is Hector's helmet?
Hera offered Paris power over these two continents if he chose her as the fairest.
What are Europe and Asia?
After sneaking out of the horse at night, the Greek soldiers did this FIRST.
What is opening the gates?
This god of metalworking helped the Greeks by using fire to defeat the River Scamander when it attacked Achilles.
Who is Hephaestus?
This was Achilles's best friend who wore Achilles's armor into battle and was killed by Hector.
Who is Patroclus?
After defeating Hector, Achilles did THIS to Hector's body while King Priam watched from the walls.
What is dragged it behind his chariot around the walls of Troy?
The Iliad is a story about this.
The Odyssey is a story about this.
What is the Trojan War?
What is Odysseus' voyage home?
This is what happened to the Trojan priest Laocoön who threw a spear at the horse and warned "I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts!"
What is being swallowed/killed by a sea serpent(s)?