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In Iliad book 1, which god sends the plague on the greek camp? - correct answers apollo
a cleaning or purgation of emotion through pity and fear - correct answers catharsis
a crucial mistake made by the protagonist of the play - correct answers hamartia
a change of fortune for the protagonist - correct answers peripeteia
a recognition by a character in a tragedy - correct answers anagnorisis
what gift do the gods give to achilles in book 18? - correct answers new armor from Hephaestus depicting two
cities: 1 at war and 1 at peace
according to Herodotus, in what way is the origin of the Greek war with Persia similar to the origin of the
Greek war with Troy? - correct answers they both abuse women and take advantage of them as if they're
spoils of war
how does themistolces the Athenian interpret the Delphic oracles that Athens should hide behind a wooden
wall? - correct answers he believed the "wooden wall" meant to quickly create a navy
an aeschylus' Agamemnon, what is Clytemnestra's primary reason for being angry with Agamemnon? - correct
answers he killed their daughter, iphegenia
in libation bearers, how does orestes prove to electra that he is orestes? - correct answers they compare locks
of hair and woven cloth
, in Sophocles' Oedipus, who is tireseas, and what does he tell Oedipus - correct answers he is a blind prophet.
he tells Oedipus that he killed his father and married his mother
who is haemon and what is his advice to creon in Antigone? - correct answers he's engaged to Antigone and is
creon's son. he advises creon not to punish Antigone.
in Herodotus' account, how does Croesus escape from the fires of the pyre? - correct answers Apollo saves
him by extinguishing the flames
in book 16, what is one requirement achilles makes of Patroclus? - correct answers he orders Patroclus to
return after he drives the trojans away from the ships
who is ismene and how does she feel about polyneices' death? - correct answers she's Antigone's sister, and
she feels sad but unwilling to resist the king's orders by buying polyneices
in the Antigone, why does creon leave Polyneices' body unburied? - correct answers he went against the king
in battle and therefore, did not deserve to be buried
who defeats the Persians at the battle of marathon? - correct answers the athenians
which perisan king conquered egypt? - correct answers Cambyses
who do the furies pursue? - correct answers orestes
Identify: Patroclus - correct answers -best friends with Achilles
-wore Achilles armor into battle and died; he was killed by hector
-he did so because Achilles was unwilling to fight, so he wanted it to appear to the trojans as if Achilles was
actually fighting
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