All About Helen

I will be doing a guest blog at Hour 25 about a minor character in Greek mythology; Aethra. She is Theseus' mom and Helen's handmaiden. This woman saw it all!

She defied Apollo's commands and bedded Poseidon in one night. She raised Theseus, Helen and her own great-grandson. She was there when Helen met Paris and when the sword famously fell from Menelaus' hand.

Created by: William Moulton of Hour 25
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  1. Which goddess does Homer refer to as "the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn"
  2. Troilus ,the dauntless charioteer, is the son of which king of Troy?
  3. Clytemnestra chose as a lover which of her husband Agamemnon's cousins?
  4. Creon revealed to King Oedipus that his biological father, Laios left Thebes, as an emissary [theoros]. Which city was Laios headed for when he died?
  5. Their sister had a face that launched a thousand ships. Who is this famous sister of the Spartans Castor and Polyneices?
  6. Athena's aegis has a gorgon's head on it. Which gorgon?
  7. In the Epic Cycle, the Trojan princess Polyxena is slain to appease the ghost of the best of the Achaeans? Whose ghosts is this?
  8. Each year a ship left Athens and returned from Crete. This sacred ship was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus. This theoria was performed to honor the victory of which Athenian hero?
  9. According to Dolon, Hector promised him an immortal pair of horses. Which Greek hero did these horses belong to?
  10. Who was father of Clytemnestra and Helen?

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