-Minerva
-Wisdom
Athena
-Pro Greek
-patron saint of Odysseus
-Neptune
-Sea
Poseidon -Pro Greek
-Anti Trojan for not being paid for building their walls
-Anti Odysseus because he killed his cyclops son
-Apollo
-Sun; light; song/the arts; health
Apollo
-Pro-Trojan
-Apollo and his sister are deadly archers
-Venus
Aphrodite -Love and Sex
-Pro Trojan
-Mars
Ares -War
-Pro Trojan
-Diana
Artemis -Hunting
-Pro Trojan
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-Vulcan
Hephaestus -Fire; the lame smith of the gods; armorer
-married to Aphrodite
-Pluto
Hades
-God of the dead; King of the Underworld
-Prosperina
Persephone
-Queen of the Underworld
What's the Illiad about? The Greek Warrior Achilles during the Trojan war
What's the Odyssey about? About the Greek warrior Odysseus and his attempt to return home after the Trojan war
Achaeans
Myrmidons
What are other names for the Greeks?
Danaans
Argive
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- King of the Greeks
- son of Atreus and brother of Menelaus
Agamemnon
- killed by wife, Clytaemnestra
- daughter was Iphigenia who was sacrificed
- Greek King of Sparta and husband of Helen
Menelaus
- son of Atreus and brother of Agamemnon
Helen Wife of Menelaus who was kidnapped by Paris of Troy and started the Trojan war
- Greatest warrior of the Greeks
- son of Thetis (sea nymph) and Peleus (human)
Achilles
- Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus) is his son
- aka Pelides
Patriclus Achilles' kinsman and close companion
- Clever Greek, subject of the Odyssey
- son of Laertes
Odysseus
- father of Telemachus
- husband of Penelope
Diomedes A brave and powerful Greek warrior
Antinous A ringleader of the suitors
Calypso Nymph who offers Odysseus immortality if he stayed with her
Polyphemus The cyclops who nearly devours Odysseus and his men
Penelope Wife of Odysseus
Telemachus Teenage son of Odysseus who sets off to find his father
Laertes Aged father of Odysseus
Men of Ithica who seek Penelope's hand in marriage because they believe Odysseus to
Suitors
be dead
- "the great complaint" students don't take literature because they are obsessed with
The Great Kvetch
future profit
The farm boy asks a question that initially the teacher thinks to be ignorant ("Who is
Explain the "Dante meets the farm boy"
right? Dante or Plato?") but realizes he is actually thinking about the material beyond
scenario
the context of the class and actually thinking of them as people
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