Heroes Alone and Wrestling

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  1. How many times was Oedipus expelled from Thebes?
  2. Dionysus appeared on a jutting headland by the shore of the fruitless sea. Pirates came swiftly over the sparkling sea and snatched him up. According to Perseus where were the from?
  3. Who slew Princess Megara of Thebes and her three sons?
  4. When you don your armor for battle, which pieces do you start with?
  5. Which book of The Iliad is most suspect?
  6. Semele's son was NOT called...
  7. What god did Menelaus wrestle with?
  8. Which river god almost killed Achilles?
  9. At Colonus whom did Oedipus supplicate?
  10. Homer asks the goddess Clio to begin the telling of the Iliad at the point where there was strife between which two heroes?

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