Books I-XX

Question 1

great inventor of Crete who built the labyrinth

Answer 1

Daedalus

Question 2

“I say further, and lay my saying to your heart …”

Answer 2

dying words of Patroclus

Question 3

Titan wife to Cronus; mother of the gods

Answer 3

Rhea

Question 4

lowest abyss under the earth; a place of punishment/torment

Answer 4

Tartarus

Question 5

father of Aeneas by Aphrodite

Answer 5

Anchises

Question 6

sisters and goddesses of beauty and creativity

Answer 6

Graces

Question 7

goddess who, when not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, tossed a golden apple For the fairest; also called Strife

Answer 7

Discord

Question 8

daughter of King Minos of Cnossus, Crete

Answer 8

Ariadne

Question 9

priest of Apollo who asks Agamemnon to give his daughter back

Answer 9

Chryses

Question 10

son of Priam

Answer 10

Deiphobus

Question 11

Trojan warrior and advisor to Hector; born the same night as Hector

Answer 11

Polydamas

Question 12

the sun god; a Titan

Answer 12

Hyperion

Question 13

Achilles’ grandfather; his father Zeus made men of ants for him - Myrmidons

Answer 13

Aeacus

Question 14

son of Eumedes; scout of the Trojans

Answer 14

Dolon

Question 15

goddess of grain; mother of Persephone

Answer 15

Demeter

Question 16

“Odysseus has done many a good thing ere now in fight and council, but he never did the Argives a better turn than when he stopped this fellow’s mouth from prating further. he will give the kings no more of his insolence.”

Answer 16

the Greeks about Thersites

Question 17

“[Zeus] is now on our side and is going against the Argives. Therefore swarm round the ships and fight…”

Answer 17

Hector to the Trojan army

Question 18

phalanx

Answer 18

battle formation of tightly grouped warriors, long spears, and overlapping shields

Question 19

son of Achilles who is in Scyros; will join the war after his father’s death

Answer 19

Neoptolemus

Question 20

son of Lyacon; famous Trojan archer

Answer 20

Pandarus

Question 21

older friend and squire of Achilles; son of Menoetius

Answer 21

Patroclus

Question 22

“You know no pity ….”

Answer 22

Patroclus to Acchiles

Question 23

elderly counselor to Priam and the Trojans; a whirring “cicada”

Answer 23

Antenor

Question 24

physician of the Greeks from Thessaly; son of Asclepius, a famous healer

Answer 24

machaon

Question 25

nickname for Hector's son, Scamandrius; means “king of the city”

Answer 25

Astyanax

Question 26

ugliest of the Greeks; an endless talker

Answer 26

Thersites

Question 27

Ithacan and faithful servant of Odysseus; a herald of the Greeks

Answer 27

Eurybates

Question 28

son of Panthous; brother of Polydamas and Hyperenor, wounded Patroclus

Answer 28

Euphorbus

Question 29

daughter of Chryses; prize of Agamemnon

Answer 29

Chryseis

Question 30

wise centaur who lived on mt. Pelion and tutored Achilles

Answer 30

Chiron

Question 31

son of Zeus and Electra; ancestor of the Dardanians and the Trojans

Answer 31

Dardanus

Question 32

“My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I shall not return alive but my name will live forever; whereas If I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me. To the rest of you, then, I say, ‘Go home, for you will not take Ilium.’ Zeus has held his hand over her to protect her, and her people have taken heart."

Answer 32

Achilles to the embassy

Question 33

king of the Myrmidons; father of Achilles

Answer 33

Peleus

Question 34

“Think not, Dolon, for all the good information you have given us, that you shall escape now you are in our hands, for if we ransom you or let you go, you will come some second time to the ships of the Achaeans either as a spy or as an open enemy, but if I kill you and make an end of you, you will give no more trouble.”

Answer 34

Diomed to Dolon

Question 35

surrogate father to Achilles; cursed to have no children

Answer 35

Phoenix

Question 36

one of the rivers of Hades by which the gods swore their most serious oaths

Answer 36

Styx

Question 37

venerable leader of the Pylians and the oldest and wisest Greek chieftain

Answer 37

Nestor

Question 38

son of Priam; augur of the Trojans

Answer 38

Helenus

Question 39

king of the Thracians

Answer 39

Rhesus

Question 40

first Greek to land at Troy; the first Greek to die in the war

Answer 40

Protesilaus

Question 41

grandson of Bellerophon; cousin and squire of Sarpedon

Answer 41

Glaucus

Question 42

“There is one omen, and only-that a man should fight for his country”

Answer 42

Hector to Polydamas

Question 43

chief of the Cicones, Trojan allies from Thrace

Answer 43

Mentes

Question 44

“Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Zeus fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles first fell out with one another.”

Answer 44

Homer's appeal to the Muse

Question 45

another name for the river Scamander

Answer 45

Xanthus

Question 46

“Mighty son of Tydeus, why ask me of my lineage? Men come and go as leaves year by year upon the trees. Those of autumn the wind sheds upon the ground, but when spring returns the forest buds forth with fresh ones. Even so it is with the generations of mankind, the new spring up as the old are passing away.”

Answer 46

Glaucus to Diomed

Question 47

“Alas! poor wretch …”

Answer 47

-Zeus muttering about Hecotr

Question 48

messenger of the gods, especially of Zeus

Answer 48

Iris

Question 49

older friend and squire of Achilles; son of Menoetius

Answer 49

Patroculs

Question 50

"It was I, Achilles, who had the making of you; I loved you with all my heart: for you would eat neither at home nor when you had gone out elsewhere, till I had first set you upon my knees, cut up the dainty morsel that you were to eat, and held the wine cup to your lips. Many a time have you slobbered your wine in baby helplessness over my shirt. I had infinite trouble with you, but I knew that heaven vouchsafed me no offspring of my own, and i made of son of you, Achilles, that in my hour of need you might protect me.

Answer 50

Phoenix to Achilles

Question 51

“I did ill to take my bow down from its peg on the day I led my band of Trojans to Ilium in Hector's service, and if ever I get home again to set my eyes on my native place, my wife, and the greatness of my house, may someone cut my head off then and there if I do not break the bow and set it on a hot fire-such pranks as it plays me."

Answer 51

Pandarus to Aeneas

Question 52

“*And now let there be no more …*"

Answer 52

Aeneas to Achilles

Question 53

“At daybreak we will arm …”

Answer 53

Hector to the Trojans

Question 54

“*… in battle you are better than I …*”

Answer 54

Odysseus to Achilles

Question 55

main gates of Troy from which non-combatants observe the battles

Answer 55

Scaean gates

Question 56

“My friends,” they criedd, “Argives one and all-good, bad, and indifferent, for there was never fight yet, in which all were of equal prowess - there is now work enough, as you very well known, for all of you….”

Answer 56

the Ajaxes

Question 57

the chief river god who flows through the plain below Troy

Answer 57

Scamander

Question 58

father of Patroclus

Answer 58

menoetius

Question 59

brother of Death and son of Night

Answer 59

Sleep

Question 60

“Hector, there is no persuading you to take advice. Because heaven has so richly endowed you with the arts of war, you think that you must therefore excel all others in counsel; but you cannot thus claim pre-eminence in all things….”

Answer 60

Polydamas to Hector

Question 61

Achilles' prize; daughter of Briseus

Answer 61

Briseis

Question 62

“Would I were as sure of being immortal and never growing old, and of being worshipped to Athene and Apollo, as I am that this day will bring evil to the Argives.”

Answer 62

Hector to the Trojan army

Question 63

son of Nestor; leading fighter of the men of Pylos; friend of Achilles

Answer 63

Antilochus

Question 64

“Young men's minds are light as air, but when an old man comes he looks before and after, deeming that which shall be fairest upon both sides.”

Answer 64

Menelaus to both armies

Question 65

brother of Peleus; father of Ajax the Great; from Salamis

Answer 65

Telamon