Subject |
Date Published |
Contributer |
Language |
Total Questions |
File Name |
Ancient Greece |
14th February 2009 |
Sparky |
USA |
214 |
wbe3.zip |
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Nemo James - Singer Songwriter
Achilles |
The hero of the Iliad. Achilles' rage is the fundamental theme of the epic. His death is directly connected to the conquering of the Trojan city. He kills the Trojan hero Hector, but is later killed by Paris |
Adonis |
The boy Persephone and Aphrodite loved. He must live half the year alive and half dead (in the underworld). He was killed while alive, and his blood became the anemone |
Aeacus |
Grandfather of Achilles, father of Peleus; in death he became one of the judges of the dead |
Aegeus |
Theseus's father who threw himself off the edge of the cliff when his son did not raise the white flags signifying that he had survived |
Aeneas |
The hero of the Aeneid. He led a group away from Troy and eventually made it to Italy after many hardships. Once there he had to fight a great war before he could found his city that led to the founding of the Roman empire |
Aeolus |
The King of the winds. Boreas (north, Aquilo), Zephyr (west, Favonius), Notus (south, Auster) and Eurus (east) |
Aescupulus |
"There was a woman in Thessaly named Coronis, of beauty so surpassing that Apollo loved her." The girl decided to marry a mortal instead. Apollo found this out and went mad, resulting in her death. |
Agamemnon |
The leader of the Greek armies that besiege Troy. He sacrificed his own daughter to make the wind blow in the right directions |
Ajax |
One of the Greek champions. He ills himself in a fit of rage when he is not given Achilles' arms |
Alpheus and Arethusa |
Arethusa was a virgin who fled the river go Aplheus. She dived into a stream and became a stream herself. He found his way to her underground |
Amazons |
Warrior women who live on an island in the eastern Aegean |
Andromache |
The wife of Hector who was forced to watch her young son be executed after the fall of Troy |
Antigone |
The daughter of Oedipus who accompanies her father in exile and is brave enough to bury her dead brother knowing she will be executed by her uncle Creon |