| A | B |
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| zeus had ______. | tanatalus |
| what happened w/tantalus? | envious of gods, to make them look like cannibals killed son and tried to serve him to gods |
| what was tantalus' punishment? | very hungry and thirsty. standing in pool of water and under fruit tree, water and tree wont let him eat and drink |
| what happened to pelops? | reconstructed since he did nothing wrong, part of him missing so shoulder had to b made out of ivory |
| who were pelops' kids? | atreus and thyestes |
| what happens b/w atreus and thyestes? | sibling rivalry, atreus kills thyestes kids and serves them to thyestes, thyester has an affair w/atreus' wife |
| who is thyestes son? | aegisthis |
| who are atreus's children? | agamemnon and menalaus |
| who is agamemnon's wife? | clytemnestra |
| who does clytemnestra have an affair w/? | aegisthus |
| who is menalaus's wife? | helen |
| who are agamemnon's children? | iphegenia, orestes, and electra |
| what does aegisthis do ? | kills agamemnon when he returns from battle in troy |
| who avenges agamemnon's death? | orestes |
| what does orestes do that makes him feel guilty ? | when he kills aegisthus, he also kills his mother for having the affair and feels guilty |
| what happens to helen? | stolen by paris who won her after choosing aphrodite |
| what was the supposed start of the trojan war? | the stealing of helen |
| according to the old man of the sea, what has caused the delay for menalaus and his en in getting home? | menalaus should have sacrificed to the god's in egypt and until he goes back and does so, he will never get home |
| what does zeus instruct hermes to tell calypso? | to tell her to let odysseus go, and to help him build a raft and make stores of food, basically to help him get home too |
| what is an epithet? | a term used to characterize a person or a thing |
| who is alcinous? | king of phaecians to whom odysseus tells his story |
| who is nausicaa? | the daughter of alcinous and gives odysseus directions to her father's house |
| who is odysseus? | king of ithaca |
| who is calypso? | a sea goddess who loved odysseus |
| who is agamemnon? | kind and leader of greek forces in trojan war |
| who ispolyphemus | the cyclops who imprisoned the greeks adn was later killed by odysseus |
| who is laertes? | odysseus's father |
| who is antinous? | a suitor of penelope |
| who is eurymachus? | a suitor |
| who is aias? | boastful man who thought he was better than the gods and was killed by poseidon |
| who is nestor? | the king of Pylos |
| who is paris? | youth from troy |
| who is euracleia? | telemachos's nurse |
| did homor write his two great epics? | no he composed them orally by assembling a # of earlier narrative songs |
| what century is homer usually associated w/? | 8th century bc |
| what is the epic hero? | the central hero of an epic, a figure of great, sometimes larger than life stature |
| what do the most remarkable traits have to do w/? | his most remarkable traits are generally the ones most valued by the society in which the epic originated |
