The Overview

Question 1

What island was the Golden Fleece held on?

Answer 1

Colchis

Question 2

What island did the Argo stop at that happened to be chock full of women?

Answer 2

Lemnos

Question 3

Who was Priam’s most famous wife?

Answer 3

Hecuba

Question 4

Who was Priam’s nymph lover?

Answer 4

Alexirhoe

Question 5

What was Priam’s original name, and what did it mean?

Answer 5

Podarces; swift-footed

Question 6

When was the name Priam given to Podarces?

Answer 6

After the first sacking of Troy by Heracles

Question 7

What was Paris’ original name?

Answer 7

Alexander

Question 8

What herdsman did Priam give Paris to with orders to kill the boy?

Answer 8

Agelaus

Question 9

On what mountain did Agelaus spare Paris?

Answer 9

Mount Ida

Question 10

What mountain nymph did Paris love on Mount Ida?

Answer 10

Oenone

Question 11

Who was not invited to the marriage of Thetis and Peleus?

Answer 11

Eris, goddess of discord

Question 12

Who was the son of Thetis and Peleus?

Answer 12

Achilles

Question 13

What did Eris throw into the party to incite drama?

Answer 13

A golden apple with inscriptions reading, “To the fairest”

Question 14

What did Hera offer Paris to choose her as the fairest?

Answer 14

Royal power

Question 15

What did Athena offer Paris to choose her as the fairest?

Answer 15

Victory in war

Question 16

What did Aphrodite offer Paris to choose her as the fairest?

Answer 16

The most beautiful woman in the land

Question 17

Who is Helen’s mom?

Answer 17

Leda

Question 18

Who is Helen’s biological father, and who was her mortal father?

Answer 18

Zeus; Tyndareus

Question 19

Who was the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus?

Answer 19

Atreus

Question 20

Who was the mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus?

Answer 20

Aerope

Question 21

Who was the father of Aerope and the grandfather of Agamemnon and Menelaus?

Answer 21

Catreus, king of Crete.

Question 22

Where was Menelaus when Helen got kidnapped?

Answer 22

When Menelaus was out to go to Catreus’ funeral, Helen was left in charge; this made her vulnerable and she was kidnapped.

Question 23

What man prophesized that if Odysseus left, he’d return 20 years later?

Answer 23

Halitherses

Question 24

Who was Odysseus’ wife?

Answer 24

Penelope

Question 25

What was the name of Odysseus’ son?

Answer 25

Telemachus

Question 26

How did Odysseus pretend to have gone mad?

Answer 26

He plowed his land with salt instead of seeds; yoked a donkey and bull

Question 27

Who exposed Odysseus as sane, and what land was he the king of?

Answer 27

Palamedes, king of Euboea

Question 28

What did the king of Euboea do to prove that Odysseus was sane?

Answer 28

He put Odysseus’ son, Telemachus, in front of the plow

Question 29

What is Palamedes credited with inventing?

Answer 29

mathematics, the dice, and writing

Question 30

What did Achilles do to hide from being brought into the Trojan war?

Answer 30

Disguised as a woman and hid

Question 31

Where did Achilles hide as a woman?

Answer 31

Court of Lycomedes of Skyros

Question 32

What name did Achilles pretend to have?

Answer 32

Pyrhha

Question 33

What was the name of Achilles’ son with Deidameia?

Answer 33

Neoptolmus

Question 34

Who did Agamemnon send as ambassadors to Troy?

Answer 34

Odysseus, Palamedes, Menelaus

Question 35

Who was the father of Penelope?

Answer 35

Icarius

Question 36

Who was Priam’s sister?

Answer 36

Hesione

Question 37

Why did Artemis stop the wind from blowing for the Greeks during the beginning of the Trojan war?

Answer 37

Agamemnon killed one of her sacred deer and mocked her for it

Question 38

What did Agamemnon have to do to get Artemis to grant them with wind?

Answer 38

Sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia

Question 39

What sea port were the Greeks stuck at due to the lack of wind?

Answer 39

Aulis

Question 40

What prophet saw Artemis’ message to the Greeks during the Trojan war?

Answer 40

Calchis

Question 41

Where did Artemis take Iphigenia and why?

Answer 41

the Taurians, to become a priestess

Question 42

What sign does Calchis see regarding snakes?

Answer 42

He sees a blood red snake eating a nest of sparrowlings along with the mother. From this, he takes that the sons of Priam will go down one by one, but it would take 10 long years.

Question 43

What happened to Philoctetes during the Trojan war, and what was he carrying?

Answer 43

He was bit by a snake and subsequently abandoned on the island of Lemnos, carrying Hercules’ bow and poisoned arrows

Question 44

Who was the first Greek to step foot on land in Troy, therefore dying first?

Answer 44

Protestilaus

Question 45

Who was the father of Protestilaus?

Answer 45

Iphiclus

Question 46

Who killed Protestilaus?

Answer 46

Hector of Troy

Question 47

Who was the first challenge Achilles faced on the Trojan battlefield?

Answer 47

Cycnus, a demigod son of Poseidon

Question 48

How did Achilles kill Cycnus, and what did Cycnus morph into after death?

Answer 48

Strangulation; a swan

Question 49

What group did Achilles lead during the Trojan War?

Answer 49

Myrmidons, ants from Aegina transformed into men

Question 50

Who did Cycnus receive his breastplate from?

Answer 50

Hephaestus

Question 51

Who built the Trojan walls?

Answer 51

Apollo and Poseidon

Question 52

Who was the father of Deucalion?

Answer 52

Prometheus

Question 53

Who were the parents of Pyrrha, partner of Deucalion?

Answer 53

Epimetheus and Pandora

Question 54

How did Deucalion and Pyrrha save the human populus?

Answer 54

They took rocks and put them on their shoulders. When they dropped them afterwards, the rocks sprouted into humans.

Question 55

What goddess helped Deucalion and Pyrrha?

Answer 55

Themis

Question 56

Who was Meleager’s mother?

Answer 56

Althaea

Question 57

Who was Meleager’s father?

Answer 57

Oeneus

Question 58

What famous wife of Hercules was Meleager’s sister?

Answer 58

Deianira

Question 59

Why did Artemis send the Calydonian boar?

Answer 59

Calydon’s king, Oeneus, remembered to mention every other god but her!

Question 60

Who was the Calydonian boat said to be the offspring of?

Answer 60

The Crommyonian sow

Question 61

Who was envisioned by his mother to burn down Troy?

Answer 61

Paris/Alexander

Question 62

Who interpreted Hecuba’s nightmare about Paris?

Answer 62

Cassandra