Achilles Flashcards
(80 cards)
1
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Who were the parents of Achilles?
A
Peleus and Thetis
2
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Who was the son of Peleus?
A
Achilles
3
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Who was the son of Thetis?
A
Achilles
4
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Where was Peleus king?
A
Phthia
5
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What was Achilles’s original name?
A
Ligyron
6
Q
Who is Ligyron?
A
Achilles
7
Q
Who dipped their baby…
A
Thetis
8
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What did Thetis feed to Achilles?
A
Ambrosia
9
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What did Thetis want for her baby?
A
for him to be immortal
10
Q
Who named Achilles?
A
Chiron
11
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Who raised Achilles?
A
Chiron
12
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What did Chiron feed Achilles?
A
the entrails of animals
13
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Where did Achilles grow up?
A
mt pelion
14
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Who was Phoenix king of?
A
The Dolopians
15
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Who became the tutor of Achilles?
A
Phoenix
16
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What son of Menoetius…
A
Patroclus
17
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Who was the father of Patroclus?
A
Menoetius
18
Q
Who accidentally killed their playmate in Opus?
A
Patroclus
19
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Where did Thetis send Achilles?
A
To Scyrus
20
Q
Where was Lycomdes king?
A
Scyrus
21
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Who announced that Troy couldn’t be taken without Achilles’s help?
A
Calchas
22
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What was Achilles’s name when he was disguised as a girl?
A
Pyrrha
23
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Who, disguised as a girl in the court of Lycomedes…
A
Achilles
24
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Whose court did Achilles hide in?
A
Lycomdes’s
25
Which of Lycomedes's daughters bore a son to Achilles?
Deidameia
26
Who was the son of Deidameia and Achilles?
Neoptolemus / Pyrrhus
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Who came to Scyrus in search of Achilles?
Odysseus
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How did Odysseus trick Achilles into revealing himself?
He placed feminine things as well as a spear and shield on a table and blew a trumpet to signal an invasion
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What happened when the trumpet blew on Scyrus?
Achilles stripped off his feminine clothing and grabbed the spear and shield
30
Who did Agamemnon promise Iphigeneia would marry?
Achilles
31
In Mysia, what king of Teuthrania...
telephus
32
Where did Achilles would Telephus?
his thigh
33
What was Telephus told about his wound?
Only the inflictor could heal it
34
Who explained to Achilles that the inflictor of Telephus's wound was his spear?
Odysseus
35
How was Telephus healed?
Achilles scraped the rust from his spear into the wound
36
What did Telephus do in return for Achilles healing his wound?
he guided the greeks to Troy
37
What did Thetis warn Achilles?
he would either have a long comfortable life in Phthia or a short glorious one at Troy
38
Who was the father of Tenes, king of Tenedos?
Apollo
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What did Thetis warn Achilles about Tenes?
Not to kill him for Apollo, his father, would be sure to avenge him
40
Who warned Achilles about king Tenes?
Thetis
41
Who warned Achilles about having a short glorious life if he chose to fight in the Trojan War?
Thetis
42
Who was the first to land at Troy?
Protesilaus
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Who was the first greek to be killed at Troy?
Protesilaus
44
Who warned Achilles not to be the first to step on Troy?
Thetis
45
What was strange about Cycnus, king of Colonae?
he was invulnerable to weapons
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How did Achilles kill Cycnus?
strangled him with the thongs of his helmet
47
Who was the first person Achilles fought once he was on Troy?
Cycnus
48
Where did Eetion rule?
Hypoplacian Thebes
49
Who killed Eetion?
Achilles
50
How did Achilles bury Eetion and why?
With his armor on out of respect
51
Who did Achilles bury with their armor on?
Eetion
52
Who killed Troilus?
Achilles
53
Who did Achilles sell for ransom?
Lycaon, Isus, and Antiphus
54
Where was Briseis from?
Lyrnessus
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What Lyrnessian woman...
Briseis
56
What three men formed the embassy...
Odysseus, Ajax the Greater, and Phoenix
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Who killed Patroclus?
Hector
58
What river did Achilles fight?
Scamander
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Why was the Scamander River mad?
Because it was filled with corpses from Achilles
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who dried up the scamander river?
Hephaestus
61
How did Achilles beat the Scamander river?
Hephaestus dried it up
62
Who killed Hector?
Achilles
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Who aided Achilles in killing Hector?
Athena
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What did Achilles do to Hector?
Stripped him of armor and dragged him behind his chariot three times around the city
65
Who killed Pentheileia?
Achilles
66
Who fell in love with the corpse of an amazon?
Achilles
67
Who taunted Achilles for falling in love with Penthesleia's corpse?
Thersites
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Who killed Thersites?
Achilles
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After killing Thersites, where did Achilles have to sail to be purified for it?
Lesbos
70
Who purified Achilles for killing Thersites?
Odysseus
71
Who killed Memnon?
Achilles
72
Who killed Achilles?
Paris
73
How did Apollo get revenge for Achilles killing Tenes?
he guided Paris's arrow
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Who made Achilles's armor?
Hephaestus
75
Who won Achilles's armor?
Odysseus
76
Who killed himself because he lost to Odysseus for the armor?
Ajax the Greater
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Who predicted that Troy would only fall if Achilles's son Neoptolemus fought with the greeks?
Helenus
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Who went to Scyrus and asked for Neoptolemus's aid?
Odysseus and Phoenix
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Who did Odysseus give Achilles's armor to?
Neoptolemus
80
What did Achilles's ghost demand?
They sacrifice Priam's daughter Polyxena on his tomb
