Book 2 Flashcards by Jules Holleran

In book 2 of the Iliad, who sends a false dream…

Zeus

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In book 2 of the Iliad, who, in the form of Nestor…

Zeus

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In book 2 of the Iliad, to whom does Zeus send a false dream…

Agamemnon

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Who, carrying a scepter made by Hephaestus…

Agamemnon probably

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In book 2 of the Iliad, who tells Athena Atrytone…

Hera

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Bow-legged…

Thersites

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Shoulders that cave in…

Thersites

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Who, beaten down by the staff of Odysseus…

Thersites

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What man, beaten by Odysseus after he insulted Agamemnon…

Thersites

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A serpent with blood-red…

Aulis/Calchas

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What man, with the gaze of Zeus, waist of Ares, and chest of Poseidon…

Agamemnon

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What leaders of the Boeotians in the Trojan war…

Peneleus and Leitus

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What scion of Ares and son of Chalcodon…

Elephenor

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50 ships with 120 men each…

Peneleus and Leitus

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30 ships from Minyan Orchomenus and Aspledon…

Ascalaphus and Ialmenus

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Who, alongside Arcesilaus, Prothoenor, and Clonius…

Peneleus and Leitus

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40 black ships from Phocis…

Schedius and Epistrophus

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What short man, who wore a linen corslet…

LDE

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Though he was short, who was more skillful than any other Hellene or Achaean with the spear….

LDE

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Forty black Locrian ships…

LDE

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What region, whose men were known for wearing long hair behind them and carrying spears of ash-wood…

Abantes

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What leader of the Abantes…

Elephenor

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40 Abantian ships…

Elephenor

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50 Athenian ships…

Menestheus

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Who, except for Nestor, was the best...

Menestheus

Who, the best at marshaling chariots...

Menestheus

Who, the best at handling the shield...

Menestheus

What man, who ranged his troops along the Athenians...

LDE

What man, who led 12 ships from Salamis...

BDE

What man, whose great war cry...

Diomedes / Menelaus

What godlike fighter and son of Mecisteus...

Euryalus

Who, alongside Stenelus and Euryalus...

Diomedes

What man, who led 80 black ships...

probably Diomedes

What man, who led 100 ships...

Agamemnon

What man, clad in gleaming bronze armor, lead 100....

Agamemnon

What man, who led 60 Spartan...

Menelaus

What Gerenian charioteer...

Nestor

Who, coming from Eurytus’s home in Oechalia, dared to challenge....

Thamyris

Because the land-locked Arcadians knew nothing of the sea...

Agapenor

Who, sent 60 ships...

Agapenor

What two grandsons of Actor...

Amphimachus and Thalpius

What leaders of the Epeians and sons of...

Amphimachus and Thalpius

Tyndareus’ daughter Timandra is said to have deserted her husband, Echemus...

Phyleus

What son of a Zeus-beloved horseman...

Meges

Cephallenia, Same, Zacynthus, and Ithaca were led...

Odysseus

12 crimson prowed ships...

Odysseus

40 black Calydonian ships...

Thoas

Who, alongside Meriones...

probably Idomeneus

What man, a peer of Ares Enyalius...

Meriones

80 black Cretan ships...

Idomeneus

What son of Heracles, famed for his spearmanship...

Tlepolemus

9 ships from Rhodes...

Tlepolemus

What man, after accidentally killing his uncle Licymnius...

Tlepolemus

What man fled to Rhodes after accidentally killing...

Tlepolemus

Who, the most handsome man after Achilles...

Nireus/BDE according to Tripp

40 ships from Phylace...

Protestalius/Podarces

11 ships from Pherae...

Eumelus

What man, who led ships alongside Medon...

Philoctetes

What bastard son of Oileus....

Medon

Who, fairest of Pelias’s daughters...

Alcestis

50 oarsmen skilled in archery manned whose...

Philoctetes

30 hollow ships...

Machaon and Podalarius

40 black ships were led by what son of Euaemon...

Eurypylus

Who, conceived on the same day when the Centaurs were chased from Pelion to the land of the Aethices...

Polypoetes

Chased from Pelion to the land of the Aethices...

Centaurs

Whose horses, raised in Pereia...

Admetus

What son of Priam, known for his swiftness...

Polites

Who, stationed as a lookout at the burial mound of Aesyetes...

Polites

In book 2 of the Iliad, who, in the form of Polites...

Iris

Who, alongside Archelous and Acamas...

Aeneas

Who, leading his troops from Zeleia...

Pandarus

What man, who warned his sons Adrastus and Amphius not to go..

Merops

What man, whose horses were reared by the stream Selleis...

Asius

Who was turned over to Hyrtacus...

Arisbe

Whose land, known for breeding savage mules...

Eneti

Who led the Paphlagonians from the land of the Eneti...

Pylaemenes

What man, from his land beside the Xanthos river...

probably Sarpedon

Book 2 Flashcards

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