Unit 13: Myths & Culture

Question 1

Paris

Answer 1

Trojan prince whose abduction of Helen sparked the Trojan War

Question 2

Helen

Answer 2

Spartan woman whose abduction by Paris sparked the Trojan War

Question 3

Menelaus

Answer 3

king of Sparta and husband of Helen

Question 4

Agamemnon

Answer 4

king of Mycenae and brother of Menelaus, he was the leader of the Greeks at Troy

Question 5

Iphigenia

Answer 5

daughter of Agamemnon who was sacrificed so the Greek ships could set sail for Troy

Question 6

Clytemnestra

Answer 6

wife of Agamemnon who murdered her husband after he returned home from Troy

Question 7

Iliad

Answer 7

famous poem about a quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon during the tenth year of the war

Question 8

Achilles

Answer 8

Greek hero who refuses to fight during most of the Iliad

Question 9

Patroclus

Answer 9

while Achilles refused to fight, this man donned Achilles’ armor and killed many Trojans before finally being defeated by Hector

Question 10

Hector

Answer 10

Trojan warrior who kills Achilles’ friend Patroclus, and is then killed by Achilles

Question 11

Priam

Answer 11

king of Troy and father of Hector, he snuck into the Greek camp and personally begged Achilles to let him ransom Hector’s body

Question 12

Aeneas

Answer 12

Trojan prince who escaped Troy and sailed to Italy, the mythical ancestor of the Roman people

Question 13

aquila

Answer 13

the symbol of a Roman legion, carried by the aquilifer

Question 14

Agricola

Answer 14

Roman governor of Britain at the time of our stories

Question 15

testūdō

Answer 15

“turtle” formation where a Roman unit covered themselves with shields

Question 16

dracō

Answer 16

the “dragon” used for rallying Roman cavalry units