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| The Two Curses of the House of Atreus |
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Curse of Myrtilus
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| Curse that Myrtilus placed on Pelops for his betrayal, as Pelops threw him from a cliff after he helped Pelops win a race. |
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| Curse placed on the house of Atreus because Thyestes was served his children, cooked by Atreus, for dinner. |
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| Who won the competition to become the King of Mycenae? |
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| How was Atreus determined to be the rightful King of Mycenae? |
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| Atreus himself predicted Zeus would make the sun rise in the west and he did. |
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| Mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus |
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| Daughter of Thyestes and mother of Aegisthus |
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| Wanted to avenge himself upon his borther Atreus |
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| Only daughter of Menelaus and Helen...married Orestes |
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| Twin brothers Castor and Pollux |
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| A way for Helen's father to protect himself, turning the suitors who did not receive Helen's hand in marriage into body guards. |
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| Her forgot to envite her to the wedding, goddess of strife |
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| What was the consequence for not inviting Eris to the Wedding? |
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| Lead to the catfight over the golden apple and the judgement by Paris, when he had to decide between Hera, Athene, and Aphrodite. |
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| Why was Paris exposed at birth? |
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| Priam and Hekabe wished for him to die due to a prophecy that he would be the end of Troy. |
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| How did Paris discover he was Prince of Troy? |
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| The godesses had him judge who was the most beautiful. As a favor, Aphrodite gave him Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, and he returned to Troy with her and was recognized as a prince. |
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| Which hero of the Trojan War tried to dodge service and why? |
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| Odysseus. He acted like he was crazy to get out of it, but they threw his son, Telemachus, under the plow he was using so he would have to stop...if he were sane. He did, and had to go to war. |
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| Greek warrior who exposed Odysseus ploy to stay out of the war...he threw Telemachus under the plow. |
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| _______ was sacrifice by her father Menelaus at Aulis. |
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| why and how was Iphigenia sacrificed at Aulis? |
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| This was the only way to get the winds to change so the Greeks could sail to Troy. She was made to believe she was going to marry Achilles. |
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| Who sent the plague to decimate the Greeks at the beginning of the Iliad? |
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| Why did Apollo send a plague to decimate the Greeks at the beginning of the Iliad? |
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| He was angry with Agamemnon for kidnapping Chryses. |
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| Astyanax was killed on the orders of |
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| Queen of the Amazons at the time of the Trojan War |
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| The Debate over Achilles armor was between whom? |
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| Why was the Palladium important to Troy? |
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| The city's safety depended on it. |
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| Who cursed the nostoi of the Greeks? |
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| Why did Athena curse the nostoi of the Greeks? |
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| For the rape of Cassandra on her altar. |
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| Why was Orestes on Trial? |
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| To avenge his father. He was doing as the oracle instructed. |
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| Where was Orestes Trial held? |
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| Who cast the deciding vote in Orestes Trial? |
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| What was the outcome of Orestes trial and why was it the outcome? |
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| Acquittal because his mother was not blood related. |
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| The furies, the kindly ones in Greek |
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| Son of Achilles_____ was killed by the priests at the Delphian temple of Apollo. |
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| How does Hermoine feel about Adromache? |
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| Didn't trust her and accused her of witchcraft |
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| Where is Neoptolemus in the Andromache tragedy? |
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| Son of Aeacus and father of Achilles...granted immortality by Thetis. |
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| Married Helenus and returned to Asia Minor to begin a new dynasty from Molossus |
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| Commissioned by Odysseus and used by the Greeks to get into Troy to sack the city. |
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| Priest of Poseidon who suspected the Trojan Horse held warriors |
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| bitter at the murder of her father Menelaus, daughter of Clytemnestra and stepdaughter of Aegisthus |
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| Killed her husband, Menelaus, with a hatchet for sacrificing her daughter Iphigenia. |
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