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1
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Where was Peleus king?

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Phthia

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Who were the parents of Achilles?

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Peleus and Thetis

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Who was the first child of Peleus and Thetis?

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Ligyron

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What centaur did Peleus give Ligyron to to rear?

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Cheiron

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What is the new name given to Ligyron by Cheiron?

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Achilles

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What food did Cheiron give to Achilles?

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Entrails if wild animals

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Where did Cheiron and Achilles live?

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Mount Pelion

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Who taught Achilles when he was still young?

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Phoenix

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Where was Phoenix from?

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Ormenium

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What people did Phoenix become the king of by Peleus?

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Dolopians

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Who was the father of Patroclus?

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Menoetius

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What squire to Achilles…?

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Patroclus

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Who told Thetis that the Greeks would only win at Troy with Achilles?

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Calchas

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Who dressed Achilles as a girl so that he wouldn’t be taken to Troy?

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Lycomedes

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What name did Lycomedes give to Achilles?

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Pyrrha

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What daughter of Lycomedes bore Achilles a son?

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Deidameia

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Who was the son of Achilles and Deidameia?

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Neoptolemus or Pyrrhus

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Who was the first to find Achilles in disguise?

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Odysseus

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What did Odysseus place on the porch of Lycomedes home?

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Sword, shield, and then feminine trinkets

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At what age was Achilles made admiral of the Greeks?

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15

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What port did Agamemnon lite and kill Iphigenia for favorable winds?

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Aulis

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Whose troops were the Greeks met with when landing in Mysia?

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Telephus

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Where was Telephus king?

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Teuthrania/Pergamum

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Who was the father of Telephus?

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Heracles

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Who did the oracle say could heal Telephus’s wound?
The dealer of the blow
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What was the true dealer of Telephus’s wound?
Achilles’s spear
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What son of Apollo did Achilles kill?
Tenes
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Who was the first Greek to be killed?
Protesilaus
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Who was the son of Poseidon that Achilles killed who was invulnerable to weapons?
Cycnus
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Where was Cycnus king?
Colonae
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Who arranged for Achilles to meet Helen?
Thetis and Aphrodite
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Lyrnessus and Hypoplacian Thebes… were sacked by what man?
Achilles
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Where was Eetion king?
Hypoplacian Thebes
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How was Eetion related to Hector?
Father in law
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Who was king of Scyrus when Achilles sacked it?
Enyeus
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While working on an orchard?
Lycaon
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Who did Achilles capture and sell, ans later kill in battle?
Lycaon, Isus, and Antiphus
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Who was king of Lyrnessus when Achilles sacked it?
Evenus
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Where was Briseis from before Achilles carried her off?
Lyrnessus
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What concubine of Agammenon did he have to give up to save the Greeks from a plague?
Chryseis
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Who did Agammenon send to Achilles to convince him to come back?
Odysseus, Phoenix, and Ajax
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What river did Achilles fight?
Scamander
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What god dried up the Scamander and saved Achilles?
Hephaestus
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Who aided Achilles to kill Hector?
Athena
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What Amazon Queen did Achilles kill but then fall in love with?
Penthesileia
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Who taunted Achilles for falling in love with Penthesileia?
Thersites
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Who purified Achilles of his kidder of Thersites?
Odysseus
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What Ethiopian king did Achilles kill?
Memnon
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Who killed Achilles?
Paris
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Who guided Paris’s arrow that killed Achilles?
Apollo
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Who carried Achilles body off while Odysseus defended the rear?
Ajax the greater
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Who made Achilles armor?
Hephaestus
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Who was awarded Achilles armor after his death?
Odysseus
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Which of Priams daughter did Achilles want the Greeks to sacrifice to on his tomb?
Polyxena
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Who do some say Achilles was married to on the White Island?
Medea
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Who is the wife of Cinyras?
Metharme
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Who is the father of Metharme?
Pygmalion
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Who are the most common parents of Adonis?
Cinyras/Theias and Myrrha/Smyrna
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What goddess cursed Myrrha with love for her father because of an honor less sacrifice to her?
Aphrodite
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What tree was Myrrha transformed into?
Myrrh tree
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Who first saw Adonis when he was born?
Aphrodite
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What did Zeus decide for the fate of Adonis?
Should spend 1/3 year with Aphrodite, 1/3 with Persephone, and 1/3 he chooses
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What muse is said to have decided Adonis’s fate?
Calliope
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What son of Calliope did Aphrodite kill because Adonis didn’t spend the whole year with her?
Orpheus
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What animal killed Adonis?
A boar
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What was Adonis’s blood turn into when he died?
A red anemone
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Who is Adonis sometimes identified with?
Tammuz or Dumuzi
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What Tyrrhenian sailor..?
Acoetes
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Who did Acoetes fellow sailors kidnap?
Dionysus
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What was Acoetes crew turned into?
Dolphins
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What man tried to imprison Acoetes?
Pentheus
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Where was Agammenon king of?
Mycenae
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The son of Atreus are Agammenon and Menelaus are sometimes said to be sons of what other son if Atreus?
Pleisthenes
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Who killed Atreus?
Aegisthus
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Whose vengeance against Aegisthus saved the Atreidae?
Thyestes
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What king of Sparta helped the Atreidae to overthrow Thyestes?
Tyndareus
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What was Agammenons first act as king?
To kill Tantalus
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Who were the parents of Tantalus?
Thyestes and Clytemnestra
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Who are the four kids of Agammenon and Clytemnestra?
Chrysothemis, Electra, Iphigenia, and Orestes
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Who is the sister of Clytemnestra?
Helen
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Who did Agammenon compare his skill at hunting to?
Artemis
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What two messengers did Agammenon send to fetch Iphigenia from Clytemnestra?
Odysseus and Diomedes
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What animal did Artemis substitute for sacrifice instead of Iphigenia?
Stag
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What god warned Aegisthus not to seduce Clytemnestra?
Hermes
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Who was the father of Palamedes?
Nauplius
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Who was the brother of Palamedes?
Oeax
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Who told Clytemnestra that Agammenon was bringing home Cassandra as a concubine?
Oeax
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Beacons of fires in mountaintops from the Trojan Ida to Mycenae kept watch on what man?
Agammenon
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Trapped in a net and killed with an ax….
Agammenon
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Who were Cassandra ans Agammenons two kids?
Pelops and Teledamus
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Who sent away Orestes to be saved?
Electra
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What kings court did Orestes go to and was reared there?
Strophius in Phocis
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What virgin huntress…..?
Atalanta
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Who were the parents of Atalanta?
Iasus and Clymene
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Where was Iasus king?
Tegea or Maenalus
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Who was the Schoeneus’s daughter?
Clymene
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Who was suckled by bears?
Atalanta
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Why did Atalanta want to remain a virgin?
So she could enjoy the sport of hunting
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What centaurs attempted to rape Atalanta?
Rhoecus and Hylaeus
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Who did Jason deny a spot on the Argo because she was a women?
Atalanta
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