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Who was Thetis?
Achilles' mom
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Who got married?
Thetis and Peleus got married
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Who was Eris
the goddess of discord
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Why did Eris show up to the wedding?
She had not been invited and decided to take revenge
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What was Eris' revenge?
She threw a golden apple labeled for the fairest, causing the goddesses to fight over who was indeed, the fairest
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Where did the golden apple come from?
The Garden of Hsperides
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Who were the final three contestents?
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Who was put in charge of making the decision?
Paris of Troy
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Who reigned over Troy?
Priam
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What was Paris' destiny?
Paris was destined to cause the destruction of his people
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What did each goddess promise Paris
- Juno - great power and hapiness in his domestic life
- Minerva - wisdom and respect from everyone
- Venus - promised him the most beautiful woman in the world as his wife
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Who did Paris award the golden apple?
Venus
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Who were the brothers of Helen and who were her parents?
- Castor and Pollux
- Leda and Jupiter
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What was the oath of Helen's suitors and who came up with the idea?
- the oath was that they would punish anyone who tried to molest Helen or her husband
- Ulysses came up with the idea
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Who was Helen's husband?
Menelaus, king of Sparta was chosen by Helen to be her husband
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What did Paris do to cause conflict?
Convinced Helen to elope with him back to Troy
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What was the problem with Ulysses?
He didn't want to keep his oath
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What did Menelaus do after Helen had left?
He called all the suitors to form an army
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Who were some of the great heroes in the greek army?
- Menelaus
- Agamemnon
- Nestor the sage
- Ullysses
- Ajax
- Diomedes
- Stentor
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What was fortold by the oracles about Achilles?
- The greeks couldn't win without him
- He would die in a war against Troy
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Who was Agamemnons daughter?
Iphigenia
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What happened to Agamemnon's daughter?
- When out hunting Agamemnon slew a stag sacred to Diana
- The oracle said Diana wouldn't be satisfied until his daughter was sacrificed
- Right before she was sacrificed, Diana switched her out for a hart and she went and became a priestess
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Which gods favored the Trojans
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Which gods favored the Greeks?
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Which gods were neutral?
- Zeus, though he had to intervene at times
- Apollo who switched between sides
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Why did Achilles refuse to fight? What happened because of that?
- Agamemnon and Achilles got in a fight over the division of spoils in the war
- Thetis went to Jupiter and asked him to let the Trojans to win for awhile
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Who were Hector's wife and son?
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Who was Patroclus and what did he do?
- Patroclus was Achilles' close friend and when Achilles refused to fight, Patroclus put on his armor and pretending to be him, went out into battle
- Patroclus died in battle
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Who was the son of Jupiter?
Sarpedon
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Who made Achilles' new armor?
Vulvan
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What did Hector do when the Trojans went inside the city
He stood and waited for Achilles
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What happened when Achilles and Hector faced off?
Achilles chased Hector around the city and when they stopped Achilles stabbed Hector in the weak spot of his armor (neck)
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What happened when Paris died?
- The war continued
- Helen married his brother Deiphobus
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Who was Laocoon?
- The priest that told the Trojans not to allow the horse in, it was a trick.
- Serphants came up and dragged him into the sea, spurring the Trojans on
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What happened with the Trojan horse?
The greeks all of the sudden left and in their place was a wooden horse as an offering to Minerva. It was taken inside the gates and after the Trojans had gone to sleep the greeks snuck out and destroyed the city.
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What happened to Helen in the end after the war?
Menelaus forgave her and she went back to being married to him
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