CLA 210 FINAL EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
✔✔7 against Thebes - ✔✔Eteocles and Polynices decide they will each rule Thebes for
a year and then swap
✔✔Curse on House of Atreus - ✔✔Oenomaus falls in love with is daughter, Hippodamia
Pelops gets a fancy chariot from some dude he promised would get to sleep with H. He
got too handsy and got thrown off the chariot.
As he fell, he cursed pelops (his son is soon Atreus)
✔✔Thyestes and Atreus - ✔✔Oracle predicts one son of Pelops must become the king
Thyestes suggested the golden fleece (no... a different golden fleece) will be a sign.
Atreus thinks he has it but his wife is sleeping with Thyestes so Theyestes has it.
Atreus asks zeus to make the sun rise on the west and shocker, Atreus becomes king.
✔✔How does Thyestes take the throne? - ✔✔Oracle: have sex with your daugher.
Theyestes is grossed put but rapes a girl who happens to be his daguhter, Peopia.
Pelopia marries Atreus and have Aegistus who inherits the rapists sword.
Theystes recognized the sword and pelopia kills everyone so Theyestes becomes king.
✔✔House of Tyndareus - ✔✔Tyndareus marries Leda; Z comes to Leda in shape of
swan the same night Tyn had sex with her
Castor and Polydeuces are inseparable twins; alternate living between Hades/Olympus;
official protectors of Roman state
Cly marries Agamemnon and lots of suitors gather to compete for Helen
Odysseus, one of Helen's suitors, arranges to solve the king's dilemma if he will arrange
a marriage between Odysseus and Tyn's niece, Penelope
Tyn makes his famous oath:
Menelaus wins Helen by offering the largest money/dowry
Oath makes it so if anything happens to Helen, the strongest leaders will have to come
together and bring her back
✔✔Who does Leda give birth to? - ✔✔Polydeuces and Helen (male and female parts
from Z),
, and Castor and Clytemnestra (male and female parts from Tyndareus)
✔✔Marriage of Peleus and Thetis - ✔✔He wrestles her and then they decide to get
married
Thetis predicted that Thetis' child would be greater than her father; so Z told Peleus to
'seduce' (aka wrestle to the ground) Thetis
The gods throw a really grand wedding, but don't invite Strife (Eris)
Strife comes along and causes trouble (throws an apple for the most beautiful)
✔✔"The Judgement of Paris" - ✔✔Paris must judge who is the most beautiful-
Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera
Helen is abducted which leads to the men invoking the Oath of Tyndareus. Odysseus
hesitates but the men trick him into coming.
✔✔How does Achelles get involved in the Trojan war? - ✔✔prophet states they wouldn't
be able to take off from Troy w/o help of Achilles (son of Thetis);
Achilles has been hidden among girls in island Scyros; O tricks Achilles by laying down
bunch of pretty girl ornaments and a sword and then saying people are attacking;
Achilles picks up the sword
✔✔King Telephus and Agammemnon - ✔✔Greeks set sail, can't find Troy; land near
Troas
Achilles wounds King Telephus there;
Oracle tells King that only that which harmed you can heal you;
Achilles heals king and Telephus leads them to Troy.
Wind blows against them, Calchas explains it's Artemis
Agamemnon sacrifices Iphigenia
Wife (Clytemnestra) doesn't take sacrifice well; when her husband returns home she
kills him
✔✔Philoctetes - ✔✔Philoctetes is bitten by a snake and abandoned bc his wound is so
stinky; Phil is the one with Heracles's bow (that will lead to end of war)
✔✔What is the Illiad generally about? - ✔✔Picks up during 10th year of battle and
focuses on rage of Achilles/conflict between 2 men
GRADED A+
✔✔7 against Thebes - ✔✔Eteocles and Polynices decide they will each rule Thebes for
a year and then swap
✔✔Curse on House of Atreus - ✔✔Oenomaus falls in love with is daughter, Hippodamia
Pelops gets a fancy chariot from some dude he promised would get to sleep with H. He
got too handsy and got thrown off the chariot.
As he fell, he cursed pelops (his son is soon Atreus)
✔✔Thyestes and Atreus - ✔✔Oracle predicts one son of Pelops must become the king
Thyestes suggested the golden fleece (no... a different golden fleece) will be a sign.
Atreus thinks he has it but his wife is sleeping with Thyestes so Theyestes has it.
Atreus asks zeus to make the sun rise on the west and shocker, Atreus becomes king.
✔✔How does Thyestes take the throne? - ✔✔Oracle: have sex with your daugher.
Theyestes is grossed put but rapes a girl who happens to be his daguhter, Peopia.
Pelopia marries Atreus and have Aegistus who inherits the rapists sword.
Theystes recognized the sword and pelopia kills everyone so Theyestes becomes king.
✔✔House of Tyndareus - ✔✔Tyndareus marries Leda; Z comes to Leda in shape of
swan the same night Tyn had sex with her
Castor and Polydeuces are inseparable twins; alternate living between Hades/Olympus;
official protectors of Roman state
Cly marries Agamemnon and lots of suitors gather to compete for Helen
Odysseus, one of Helen's suitors, arranges to solve the king's dilemma if he will arrange
a marriage between Odysseus and Tyn's niece, Penelope
Tyn makes his famous oath:
Menelaus wins Helen by offering the largest money/dowry
Oath makes it so if anything happens to Helen, the strongest leaders will have to come
together and bring her back
✔✔Who does Leda give birth to? - ✔✔Polydeuces and Helen (male and female parts
from Z),
, and Castor and Clytemnestra (male and female parts from Tyndareus)
✔✔Marriage of Peleus and Thetis - ✔✔He wrestles her and then they decide to get
married
Thetis predicted that Thetis' child would be greater than her father; so Z told Peleus to
'seduce' (aka wrestle to the ground) Thetis
The gods throw a really grand wedding, but don't invite Strife (Eris)
Strife comes along and causes trouble (throws an apple for the most beautiful)
✔✔"The Judgement of Paris" - ✔✔Paris must judge who is the most beautiful-
Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera
Helen is abducted which leads to the men invoking the Oath of Tyndareus. Odysseus
hesitates but the men trick him into coming.
✔✔How does Achelles get involved in the Trojan war? - ✔✔prophet states they wouldn't
be able to take off from Troy w/o help of Achilles (son of Thetis);
Achilles has been hidden among girls in island Scyros; O tricks Achilles by laying down
bunch of pretty girl ornaments and a sword and then saying people are attacking;
Achilles picks up the sword
✔✔King Telephus and Agammemnon - ✔✔Greeks set sail, can't find Troy; land near
Troas
Achilles wounds King Telephus there;
Oracle tells King that only that which harmed you can heal you;
Achilles heals king and Telephus leads them to Troy.
Wind blows against them, Calchas explains it's Artemis
Agamemnon sacrifices Iphigenia
Wife (Clytemnestra) doesn't take sacrifice well; when her husband returns home she
kills him
✔✔Philoctetes - ✔✔Philoctetes is bitten by a snake and abandoned bc his wound is so
stinky; Phil is the one with Heracles's bow (that will lead to end of war)
✔✔What is the Illiad generally about? - ✔✔Picks up during 10th year of battle and
focuses on rage of Achilles/conflict between 2 men
