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When did the Iliad begins? |
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- after the greeks reached Troy, when Apollo sends the pestilence upon them
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| Where did Hamilton take the story of Iphigenia? |
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| From the 5th century tragic poet Aeschylus |
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| What did Eris throw to the banqueting hall? |
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a golden apple marked "for the fairest" |
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| Why did King Priam sent Paris away? |
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| because a oracle told him that he would be someday the ruin of his country |
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| Who was Paris leaving with? |
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| a lovely nymph named Oenone |
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| What did each three goddess offered him? |
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Hera - offered him lord to Asia and Europe
Athena - promised him that he would lead the
Trojans against Greeks and lay Greece into ruins Aphrodite - offered him the fairest woman in the
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| Who was the fairest woman in the world? |
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| Who were the brother of Helenz? |
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| hELEN'S PARENTS ARE ZEUS AND LEDA BUT HER EARTHLY FATHER WAS TYDAREUS |
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| Why is King Tyndareus afraid to choose amog Helen's suitors? |
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| he was afraid to choose because he fears that the others would unite against him |
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| What did Helen's suitors promise before King Tydareus choose among them? |
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| They promised that they would champion the cause of Helen's husband, whoever he might be, if anywrong was done to him through his marriage. They bound themselves to punish anyone who carried or try to carry Helen away |
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| Who did King Tydareus choose as Helen's husband? |
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| Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon |
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| What sacred bond did Paris broke between host and guest? |
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| he broke the ties that each was bound to help and never harm the other |
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| Where did Menelaus went off? |
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| Who was the King of the island of Ithaca? |
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| why did Odysseus didn't want to go to war? |
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| because he didn't want to leave his house and family to embark on a romantic adventure overseas for the sake of faithless woman |
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| What did Odysseus when the Greek army arrive? |
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| he pretended that he gone mad by plowing a field and sowing it with salt instead of seed |
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| Why did Achilles' mother Thetis, the sea-nymph, doesn't want him to go to Troy? |
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| Thetis doesn't want him to go to the war because she knew that of he went to Troy he was fated to die there. |
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| Who did the chieftains dispatched to find Achilled out? |
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| What did Thetis made Achilles do to avoid going to the war? |
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| She made him go to the court of Lycomendes and made him wear woman's clothes and hide among the maidens. |
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| How did Odysseus recognize Achilles? |
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| Odysseus was disguised as a pedlar with gay ornaments in his pack and also some fine weapons. While the girls flocked around the trinkets, Achilles fingered the swords and daggers. Odysseus knew him then. |
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| Where did the Greek host met? |
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| What did the soothsayer, Calchas declared about the god? |
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| He declared that Artemis was angry because one of her beloved wild creatures, a hare, has been slain by the Greeks, together with her young. So the only way to calm the wind and ensure safe voyage was so sacrifice a royal maiden to Artemis, Iphigenia, Agamemnon eldest daughter. |
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| What did Agamemnon wrote to his wife? |
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| He wrote that he had arranged a great marriage for her to Achilles |
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