Chapter 20

Question 1

Pelops

Answer 1

son of Tantalus; was fed to gods; shoulder eaten by Demeter; revived by gods and father punished; ivory shoulder

Question 2

Oenomaus

Answer 2

king of Pisa; love with daughter Hippodamia; was unable to sleep with her so made it impossible for anyone to win her; died by getting caught and dragged by chariot

Question 3

Hippodamia

Answer 3

daughter of Oenomaus; won as bride by Pelops

Question 4

Myrtilus

Answer 4

Oenomaus charioteer to replace axle pins with wax so Pelops could win Hippodamia

Question 5

Thyestes

Answer 5

son of Pelops and Hippodamia; father of Aegisthus: Atreus fed him his sons; raped own daughter Pelopia

Question 6

Aegisthus

Answer 6

son of Thyestes; killed Atreus by knifing him in the back

Question 7

Atreus

Answer 7

Son of Pelops and Hippodamia; fed brothers sons to him; killed by Aegisthus

Question 8

Menelaus

Answer 8

son of Atreus; married to Helen

Question 9

Agammenon

Answer 9

son of Atreus; married to Clytemnestra; King of Mycenae

Question 10

Tyndareus

Answer 10

sons of Atreus took refuge with him; king of Sparta; married Leda; birth to Castor and Clytemnestra

Question 11

Leda

Answer 11

married Tyndareus; seduced by Zeus as a swan; birth to 4 kids Polydeuces and Helen (Semidivine) and Castor and Clytemnestra

Question 12

Polydeuces

Answer 12

semi divine son of Leda

Question 13

Helen

Answer 13

Semi divine daughter of Leda; very beautiful; many suitors

Question 14

Castor

Answer 14

mortal son of Tyndareus and Leda; shared immortality with brother Polydeuces

Question 15

Clytemnestra

Answer 15

mortal daughter of Tyndareus and Leda; married Agamemnon

Question 16

Oath of Tyndareus

Answer 16

Odyssesy proposed that if Helen was taken all suitors must help retrieve her

Question 17

Peleus

Answer 17

him and bother Telamon envied Phocus so they murdered him; was exiled; married Thetis and bore Achilles

Question 18

Ajax

Answer 18

son of Telamon; suitor of Helen; one of greatest heroes in Trojan war

Question 19

Hecabe

Answer 19

married Priam; bore Hector and Paris; oracle predicted Paris would bring destruction to the city

Question 20

Aulis

Answer 20

when oath was invoked suitors assembled at this port on Boeotia’s coast

Question 21

Palamedes

Answer 21

son of Nauplius; invented alphabet, dice, numbers, astronomy; used Odysseus’ son to see if he was mad by putting son in front of plow; later killed by Odysseus by having others stone him to death

Question 22

Calchas

Answer 22

prophet of expedition; declared need Achilles help to win

Question 23

Iphigenia

Answer 23

daughter of Agamemnon sacrificed to Artemis so journey to Troy could continue

Question 24

Philoctetes

Answer 24

bit by snake; wound began to smell so crew abandoned him; lit Heracles funeral pyre; given bow

Question 25

Chryseis

Answer 25

daughter of Chryses; captured by Achilles in raid; Agamemnon takes her and upsets Achilles; must give her up so they can be saved from plague

Question 26

Briseis

Answer 26

Achilles prize Agamemnon takes; angers Achilles; refuses to fight

Question 27

Andromache

Answer 27

wife of Hector

Question 28

Astyanax

Answer 28

son of Hector