Q 01/05

The Trojan War began after Paris took Helen from her husband, the king of which Greek city?

A) Athens

B) Mycenae

C) Sparta

D) Ithaca

Answer · why

C) Sparta

Sparta was ruled by Menelaus, Helen's husband; when Paris carried her off, Menelaus invoked the oath of Tyndareus, under which her former suitors had ...

Q 02/05

Which goddess tossed a golden apple, a prize 'for the fairest', among the guests at a divine wedding?

A) Hera

B) Eris

C) Athena

D) Nemesis

Answer · why

B) Eris

Eris, goddess of strife, had been left off the guest list for the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, and the quarrel over her apple led to the Judgement of...

Q 03/05

At the Judgement of Paris, which goddess tried to win the prize by offering him rule over a vast kingdom?

A) Athena

B) Artemis

C) Demeter

D) Hera

Answer · why

D) Hera

Hera, queen of the gods, offered Paris a throne and Athena offered victory in war, but he took the third goddess's bribe: the most beautiful woman in ...

Q 04/05

Where was Paris living as a shepherd when Hermes led the three goddesses to him?

A) Mount Olympus

B) Mount Ida

C) Mount Parnassus

D) Mount Athos

Answer · why

B) Mount Ida

Mount Ida, near Troy, is where baby Paris was left to die after a prophecy that he would ruin the city; in one telling a she-bear nursed him until a h...

Q 05/05

In which year of the siege of Troy is Homer's Iliad set?

A) The first

B) The third

C) The tenth

D) The twentieth

Answer · why

C) The tenth

The tenth year of the war is the Iliad's setting; the poem covers only a few weeks of it, from the quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon to the funeral of...