Q 01/05

Which goddess, uninvited to Peleus and Thetis's wedding, threw the apple 'to the fairest'?

A) Athena

B) Hera

C) Eris

D) Aphrodite

Answer · why

C) Eris

Eris, goddess of strife: Hera, Athena and Aphrodite each claimed her apple, and the mortal chosen to judge between them was a Trojan prince, whose ver...

Q 02/05

In which modern country do the ruins of Troy lie?

A) Greece

B) Egypt

C) Turkey

D) Lebanon

Answer · why

C) Turkey

Turkey: nine cities were built one on top of another on the same mound, and the legend drew visitors long before archaeology, with Alexander the Great...

Q 03/05

Why was Paris raised as a shepherd on Mount Ida instead of in Troy?

A) His mother died in childbirth

B) A prophecy said he would destroy the city

C) He was Priam's illegitimate son

D) Herdsmen had kidnapped him

Answer · why

B) A prophecy said he would destroy the city

A prophecy said he would destroy the city: his pregnant mother dreamed she gave birth to a burning torch, so the baby was left out on the mountain to ...

Q 04/05

In the best-known version, how did Thetis try to make Achilles invulnerable?

A) By dressing him in the Golden Fleece

B) By hiding him in Hades

C) By dipping him in the River Styx

D) By feeding him ambrosia

Answer · why

C) By dipping him in the River Styx

By dipping him in the River Styx: she held him by the heel, so it stayed mortal. In an older telling she laid the baby in a fire each night to burn hi...

Q 05/05

Which god fathered Helen, taking the form of a swan with Leda?

A) Apollo

B) Poseidon

C) Ares

D) Zeus

Answer · why

D) Zeus

Zeus: Helen was said to have hatched from an egg, and one version makes her true mother the goddess Nemesis, with Leda only raising the girl as her ow...