Ancient Greek Daughters, Fathers and Sons

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  1. Odysseus told Helen's foster-father to exact an oath from all the suitors that they would defend and protect him who was chosen as Helen's husband against any wrong done against him in regard to his marriage. The resulting oath is called what?
  2. The reason for the winds being in the wrong direction at Aulis was because Artemis was annoyed with one of the Achaean leaders bragging about deer-killing. Which king of Mycenae and Argos insulted her there?
  3. Odysseus had problems with his homecoming because he blinded Polyphemus, the son of which Olympian sea-god?
  4. Priam snuck into the Acheaan camp with a ransom and begged Achilles for the body of his most honored son. The body of which Trojan prince did he speak of?
  5. Contrary to the commands of Creon, Antigone buried the body of which Theban prince?
  6. The Atreides; the brothers Agamemnon and Menelaus were the sons of which brother of Thyestes?
  7. Which lovely, shape-shifting Nereid is exclusively called silver-footed in Homeric poetry?.
  8. Thetis and Demeter each took a baby they wished to make immortal and hid the child in the fire at night to destroy his mortal qualities, and during the day rubbed him with ambrosia. Demeter performed the ritual on Demophoon. Whom did Thetis attempt to make immortal and unaging?
  9. The Nereid Psamathe transformed herself into a seal in her attempt to ward off abduction by Achilles' grandfather. Which grandfather?
  10. The goddess Circe was the granddaughter of the Sun-Titan Hyperion. Who was her father?

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