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How It All Began
Book 22
Book 24
The Aeneid
Misc.
100
The marriage of these two was being celebrated
Who are Peleus and Thetis?
100
The immortal who protested the most at the idea of saving Hector
Who is Athena?
100
Why Hera becomes enraged at Apollo's suggestion that Achilles and Hector are equal in honor.
What is the fact that Hector is mortal and Achilles is the son of a goddess?
100
The name of the captive found by the Trojans, but abandoned by the Greeks.
Who is Sinon?
100
When the Trojan War was purported to have taken place.
When is @ 1250 BCE?
200
This immortal was not invited
Who is Eris, goddess of discord
200
Athena disguised herself as this brother in order to deceive Hector
Who is Deiphobus?
200
How the Greeks pay tribute to and honor Patroclus after his death.
What are funeral games?
200
The horse was allegedly created to appease this god.
Who is Athena?
200
Author of the Iliad - as well as when he penned it.
Who is Homer @ 750 BCE?
300
This was inscribed on the golden apple
What is "to the fairest"?
300
It is his death which spurrs such rage in Achilles for Hector.
Who is Patroclus?
300
Thoughts of him bring Achilles to tears - as well as sympathy.
Who is his father, King Peleus?
300
Her unrequited love for Aeneas is said to be the reason for the bitter hatred between Carthage and Rome.
Who is Queen Dido of Carthage?
300
Author of the Aeneid - as well as when he penned it.
Who is Virgil @ 30 BCE?
400
These three goddesses claimed the golden apple
Who are Athena, Hera and Aphrodite?
400
How Achilles knows where the weak spot is on the armor Hector is wearing.
What is it is his own (Achilles') armor that Hector had stripped from Patroclus?
400
Though enemies, Achilles insists upon feeding Priam because of this relationship, sacred to the Greeks.
What is the guest-host relationship?
400
The captive blames this person for his misfortune and fall from influence.
Who is Odysseus (Ulysses)?
400
2 alternate names for the Greeks
What are the Argives, the Achaeans, or the Danaans?
500
The goddesses who were NOT chosen offered Paris these as a bribe
What is glory in war (Athena) and wealth and power (Hera)?
500
The amount of times Achilles chased Hector around the walls of Troy - and the amount of times he dragged him.
What is 3?
500
In Book 24, this is foreshadowed as the fate of the child Astyanax
What is to be thrown from the ramparts?
500
In the Aeneid, Virgil depicts the Greeks as being this.
What is treacherous, deceitful, conniving and untrustworthy?
500
Latin phrase that translates into "in the middle of the action" or "in the middle of things" - as seen in the Iliad and the Aeneid
What is in medias res?