Iliad

Question 1

The Trojan War started at a wedding of what 2 people?

Answer 1

Thetis and Peleus

Question 2

All the gods were invited to the wedding except

Answer 2

Eris (Goddess of Discord)

Question 3

Eris goes to the wedding and writes “To The Fairest” on a golden apple and what 3 goddesses fight over it and what do they offer?

Answer 3

Athena offers wisdom and to make him the greatest warrior alive. Aphrodite offers to make the most beautiful girl in the world fall in love with him, and Hera offers to make him king of all Europe and Asia

Question 4

Zeus to get someone else to judge the three goddesses picks a Trojan prince named

Answer 4

Paris

Question 5

Paris Chooses to give the “To The Fairest” award to

Answer 5

Aphrodite

Question 6

As promised Paris is awarded with

Answer 6

Helens love

Question 7

Helen, Though was already married, who was her husband?

Answer 7

Menelaus, King of Sparta

Question 8

While her husband is gone Paris goes to Helen and

Answer 8

She immediately falls for Paris and sneaks back to Troy with him

Question 9

Menelaus after realizing Helen is gone immediately

Answer 9

Gathers the armies of Greece and his brother Agamemnon and sails to Troy, starting the Trojan War

Question 10

Agamemnon was the king of what province?

Answer 10

Mycenae

Question 11

which gods/goddesses sided with Troy?

Answer 11

Apollo, Artemis, Ares, and Aphrodite

Question 12

which gods/goddesses sided with the Greeks?

Answer 12

Hera, Athena, Poseidon, Hermes, and Hephaestus

Question 13

Who was the king of Troy at the time of the Trojan War?

Answer 13

Priam

Question 14

Who were the sons of Priam?

Answer 14

Hector, the greatest warrior of Troy and Paris, the prince who chose Aphrodite.

Question 15

Who was the greatest Greek warrior?

Answer 15

Achilles

Question 16

What made Achilles special and how?

Answer 16

He was invulnerable except in the heel due to being dipped in the Styx as a baby.

Question 17

What year did the war pick up?

Answer 17

the 10th

Question 18

What made the 10th year special?

Answer 18

Hector and Achilles fight 1 on 1 with Achilles winning and dragging his corpse around in front of the city.

Question 19

Who was the chief strategist of Greece?

Answer 19

Odysseus

Question 20

What was Odysseus’s plan?

Answer 20

Make a big wooden horse that is hollow and put soldiers in it, Act like they gave up and it was a consolation gift. and have the people in the horse come out and lower the gates at night.

Question 21

When the plan of Odysseus is enacted 2 people do not approve of bringing the horse in, who were they?

Answer 21

Cassandra and Laocoon

Question 22

What was the story of Cassandra?

Answer 22

She was a beautiful woman Apollo loved, so he promised to make her into an oracle if she slept with him but when he gave her the powers she didn’t sleep with him which led to her having a punishment that no one would believe anything she said

Question 23

What was the story of Laocoon?

Answer 23

Laocoon was a high priest of Neptune who said that the Greeks cannot be trusted, especially with Odysseus.

Question 24

Why did the Trojans still bring the horse in?

Answer 24

No one would believe Cassandra and Laocoon was killed by 2 sea serpents along with his sons when he hit the horse with his spear.

Question 25

Why did Laocoon's untimely demise affect the Trojan's judgement?

Answer 25

The Trojans saw the throwing of the spear as something that angered Athena as they had said the horse was sacred to her

Question 26

So, the Trojans bring the horse inside and

Answer 26

have a big wild party and get drunk

Question 27

While they’re sleeping (the Trojans),

Answer 27

Greeks bust out of the horse and set the city on fire

Question 28

Another prince named ____________ was able to escape

Answer 28

Aeneas

Question 29

Aeneas was able to escape with

Answer 29

Anchises – father of Aeneas Ascanius – son of Aeneas

Question 30

He and the other Trojans escape to try and find Italy,

Answer 30

where Jupiter tells him he will found a new Troy. Spoiler – this ends up being Rome

Question 31

What Greek hero managed to injure 2 gods? who were they?

Answer 31

Diomedes, Ares and Aphrodite

Question 32

How did Achilles die?

Answer 32

Achilles died when Paris shot an arrow that was then guided by Apollo to hit the heel of Achilles

Question 33

What guy disguised himself as a woman in the court of Lycomedes on Scyros

Answer 33

Achilles

Question 34

Who was the king of Ithica?

Answer 34

Odysseus

Question 35

Who was Odysseus the son of?

Answer 35

Sisyphus and Anticleia

Question 36

Who were his children and wife

Answer 36

Penelope; Circe, Calypso

Question 37

What nymph did Paris abondon

Answer 37

Oenone