Ancient Greek Warriors

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Created by: William Moulton
  1. Whose shapely thighs and legs down to his fair ankles were stained with blood?
  2. Dressed in Achilles armor, Patroclus' helmet was knocked off his head by which god?
  3. Following the duel of Menelaus and Paris, who shot the arrow that broke the truce?
  4. Chryses who brought the plague upon the Achaeans was the priest of which god?
  5. Diomedes is the son of which hero from the seven against Thebes?
  6. Who had hounded Penelope for "the third year and the fourth will soon pass" when Odysseus arrived home?
  7. How many suitors aboard the fast ship intending to ambush Telemachus between Ithaca and rocky Samos?
  8. In the opening line of the Iliad, Homer asks an unidentified goddess to sing of whose anger?
  9. In exchange for the destruction of Troy Hera offered up her favorite cities. "Destroy them whenever you may be displeased with them. I shall not defend them and I shall not care." Which below is NOT one of the cities.
  10. Who was the Trojan of judgment who alone among them could look both before and after, a comrade to Hector and born on the same night, who with all sincerity and goodwill urged the Trojans to return to the walled city rather than camp before the Achaean's ships.

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