The Illiad

This god devised a great war to solve the problem of overpopulation of the earth.

• Thetis

• Zeus

• Paris

• Achilles

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The Great war, which was the Trojan war because of:

• Paris' decision to have the most beautiful woman in the world

• Zeus' decision not to choose the fairest goddess among Hera, Athena and Aphrodite

• Eris, who was not invited in the wedding of Thetis and Peleus

• Hera's rebellion against her husband Zeus

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She offered Paris wisdom in exchange of the title "The fairest of the goddesses"

• Aphrodite

• Hera

• Athena

• Thetis

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The mother of Achilles.

• Aphrodite

• Hera

• Thetis

• Athena

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The goddess of mischief or discord.

• Athena

• Hera

• Eris

• Thetis

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The king of Sparta.

• Agamemnon

• Achilles

• Paris

• Menelaus

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The greatest and the bravest of the Greek warriors.

• Odysseus

• Hector

• Paris

• Achilles

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The Prudent old man from Greece who went to war with Agamemnon.

• Odysseus

• Nestor

• Diomedes

• Priam

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This caused Achilles from going back to war with the Trojans.

• Patroclus was killed.

• Briseis, his prize, was taken by Agamemnon

• He did not want to die in that war as prophesied

• Scared of Apollo's punishment for the Greeks

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What caused Achilles to go back to the battlefields?

• the loss of Briseis

• the loss of his friend Patroclus

• the weakening Greek warriors

• the promise that he will be remembered forever

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