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Recount the events leading up to the sack of Troy. Include the following figures and tales: Penthesilea, Thersites, the death of Achilles, the armor of Achilles, Neoptolemus, the Palladium, and Philoctetes.

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Summarize the strategy of the Trojan Horse and events of the sack of Troy. Include the following: Epeus, Sinon, Laocoön, Cassandra, Aeneas, Astyanax, Neoptolemus, Ajax (son of Oïleus), and the Trojan War.

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The Oresteia is a trilogy of plays based on the nostos (return) of Agamemnon. Summarize briefly each of the three plays.

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The myth of the Trojan War has a complex history in the Middle Ages. Tell its story, including the following: "Diary of the Trojan War," "Concerning the Fall of Troy," "The Story of Troy," and Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye.

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Explicate this passage: "Thrice you walked by the horse and stroked the hollow deception, and spoke to the noble Argives, calling on each by his name, and simulating the voices of the wives of all the Achaeans."

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Explicate this passage: "The rugged Pyrrhus, pursuing with spear poised ready to strike, kept reaching out for the boy, who still eluded his captor. At last he burst into sight, and under the gaze of his parents he slipped and gasped out his life in a last outpouring of blood."

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Explicate this passage: "O horrible! O horrible! Most horrible! Again the crushing weight of truth foreseen staggers my mind with visions I scarce dare speak. Do you see those children floating above the house, the sort of shapes one only sees in nightmares? Dead, dead! at the will of those who ought to love them! Why are their hands full of their own roast flesh, their own entrails — they hold it out as food — O horror! their father takes it, tastes it, eats."

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Explain what this statement in your text is referring to: "Aeschylus's Oresteia is a good example of how the Greeks modified and transformed ancient, traditional tales to reflect contemporary issues and justify contemporary practice."

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Your friend Jones is stuck. He's writing a research paper for a biology class on theories of human reproduction and doesn't know where to start. Give him a summary of what you've just learned in this chapter, and be specific as to the sources.

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You can't believe your eyes. A letter to the editor about the death penalty in the local paper contains this sentence: "Justice for the ancients was nothing but a barbaric, unstoppable cycle of blood-letting founded on the principle of 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'" Compose a 600-word guest article to the paper and set the record straight.

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