| Question | Answer |
| Two famous Greek Epics are: | The Odyssey and the iliad |
| the poet who wrote the odyssey and the iliad | homer |
| what epic deals with the last year of the trojan war? | iliad |
| sea creature who marreid peleus | thetis |
| thetis and peleus didnt invite this goddess to their wedding | eris or ate |
| the goddess of discord tossed a(n)________ among the midst of the wedding party. | apple |
| the apple was labeled_______. | "For the Fairest" |
| The 3 goddesses who claimed the apples were theirs | Juno, Minerva, and Venus |
| Zues said that _____ was the mortal who would make the decision of to whom to give the apple. | Paris of Troy |
| Paris was the son of ______. | Priam |
| Priam was the king of________. | Troy |
| Venus promised Paris ____________________. | The most beautiful woman in the world for his wife. |
| The most beautiful woman in the world to whom Paris was supposed to be married. | Helen of troy |
| Helen was the daughter of _____. | Jupiter or Zeus. |
| Who suggested that all the quarrelers over Helen protect her if she were to get abducted/molested? | Ulysses or Odysseus |
| The quarrelers agreed to __________. | punish any aggressor towards helen. |
| Helen was married to _______. | Menelaus |
| Menelaus was the king of ___. | Sparta. |
| Paris went to sparta and ran off with _____. | Helen. |
| menelaus called upon the suitors to meet at the seaport ______. | Aulis. |
| they remained at the seaport for _ years before setting sail. | two |
| ______ pretended to be insane to avoid going to war. | Ulysses or Odysseus. |
| Ulysses was the king of __. | Ithaca |
| Achilles's mother dipped him in the River ____ to make him invulnerable | Styx |
| Agamemnon offended the goddess of the hunt, ______. | Diana, or Artemis. |
| Diana was angry so she punished Agamemnon's army with the ______ | plague |
| Diana's plague stated that agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter, ________ on her altar. | Iphigenia |
| The real number of ships that sailed for Helen. | 1,116 |
| Agamemnon and Achilles quarreled over a ____________________. | division of the spoils of war |
| Achilles' best friend | patroclus |
| ______ killed patroclus | hector |
| Achille's mother was _________. | Thetis |
| Thetis went to the god of the forge,________ for a new suit of armor for her son. | Vulcan |
| Achilles killed ______. | Hector. |
| ______ and ______ snuck into Troy and stole a statue of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom. | Ulysses and Diomedes |
| ______ thought up the trick of the wooden horse | Ulysses |
| the priest that tried to warn the trojans about the wooden horse. | Laocoon |
| Laocoon and his sons were strangled by _________. | sea serpents. |
| the horse was filled with many hidden __________. | armed men. |
| After the city was left in a heap of ruins, Helen and Menelaus were _______ | reconciled |
| Trojans: | PriamHectorparissarpedonvenusmars |
| greeks: | ulyssesachillesmenelausagamemnonajaxpatroclusminervajunoneptunevulcan |
| neutral gods: | zeusapollo |
| He killed achilles with a poison arrow and was later ironically killed with a poison arrow also. | paris |
| hector killed _______. | patroclus |
| this goddess sent the sea serpents. | minerva |
| The trojan war occurred in approximately: (year) | 1200 B.C. |
| The iliad was composed in approximately:(year) | 900-700 B.C. |
| Who wrote the 5 lines about Helen? | Christopher Marlowe |
