4 Homer - Iliad - Lattimore & Wilcock

Question 1

Lemnos

Answer 1

Lemnos: A Greek island in the Aegean sea west of Troy

Question 2

Lesbos

Answer 2

Lesbos: A Greek island in the Aegean sea south of Troy

Question 3

Lycia

Answer 3

Lycia (LIS-she-uh): a kingdom on the Anatolian promontory by Rhodes.

Question 4

Memnon

Answer 4

Memnon (MEM-naan): prince of Aethopia; helped Priam defend Troy [MAP]

Question 5

Minos

Answer 5

Minos (MY nos): king of Crete; built the labyrinth for the Minotaur [MCM]

Question 6

Peleus

Answer 6

Peleus (puh LAY uhs): father of Achilles; king of the Myrmidons (MUR·muh·don) [AM]

Question 7

Pylos

Answer 7

Pylos: Nestor’s powerful kingdom in southwest Greece

Question 8

Sarpedon

Answer 8

Sarpedon (SAAR-puh-daan): Lycian (LIS-she-uh-n) king allied with Troy [SLT}

Question 9

Sparta

Answer 9

Sparta: a city and city-state in southern Greece, aka Lacedaemon or Laconia

Question 10

Cithaeron

Answer 10

Cithaeron (suh-THEE-run): mountains separating Boeotia (bee OW she-uh) from Attica

Question 11

Myrmidon

Answer 11

Myrmidon (MUR·muh·don): the Thessalonian ‘ant people’ led by Achilles in the Trojan War

Question 12

Tyre

Answer 12

Tyre: Phoenician port, in modern-day Lebanon, just north of Israel on the Mediterranean

Question 13

Hector
vs.
Nestor

Answer 13

Hector: Trojan who killed Achilles; son of Priam [TAP]
vs.
Nestor: elderly King of Pylos; counselor to Greeks in Troy [KPG]

Question 14

Hippodameia

Answer 14

Hippodameia [Hip-oh-day-ME-ah]: aka Briseis (bree-SAY-is)

Question 15

Advisors

Nestor vs. Antenor

Answer 15

Nestor: King of Pylos; advisor to the Greeks in Troy [KPG]
vs.
Antenor (ann-tuh-know): pro-Greek Trojan who advised King Priam [he was in the ‘know’] [PGT]

Question 16

Agenor
vs.
Eëtion

Answer 16

Agenor (ah JEN or): King of Tyre, Phoenicia; father of Cadmus, [TPC]
vs.
Eëtion (eee-shun): father of Andromache (ann-DRA-muh-key); King of Thebes-under-Plakos [AKT]

Question 17

Antenor
vs.
Agenor

Answer 17

Antenor (ann-tuh-know): pro-Greek Trojan who advised King Priam [he was in the ‘know’] [PGT]
vs.
Agenor (ah JEN or): King of Tyre, Phoenicia; father of Cadmus, [TPC]

Question 18

Where were Sarpedon and Glaucus from?

Answer 18

Lycia

Question 19

Calchas

Answer 19

Calchas (CAL caws): seer for the Greeks in Aulis and Troy

Question 20

Helen’s Lineage & sibling

Answer 20

Helen’s Lineage: daughter of Zeus and Leda; sister of Clytemnestra [ZLC]

Question 21

Hiserlik

Answer 21

Hiserlik aka Hissarlik: modern-day Turkish name for ancient Troy

Question 22

Levant

Answer 22

Levant: roughly corresponding to modern-day Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, etc.

Question 23

Odysseus

Answer 23

Odysseus (oh DIS ee us): king of Ithaca; husband of Penelope [IP]

Question 24

Penthesileia

Answer 24

Penthesileia (PEN-thuh-seal-YUH): Amazon warrioress who fought for Troy; killed by Achilles; daughter of Ares

Question 25

Propontis

Answer 25

Propontis (pro-PON-tis): The Sea of Marmara; between the Dardanelles Strait and the Bosphorus Strait [MDB]; connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea