Iliad Characters Flashcards
(68 cards)
Achilles
1) Achaean
2) most powerful warrior in Iliad
3) Son of Peleus and Thetis
4) Briseis was his prize
5) Leads the Myrmidons
6) Killed by Paris
7) double fate: can either live a long life without glory, or a short life with a lot of glory
8) prideful
Agamemnon
1: Takes Achilles’ prize Briseis
2: Cause of Achilles’ withdrawal
3: Brother of King Menelaus
4: Leader of Achaean army
5: not all that great of a leader, tells army they can go home to test them; tries to retreat many times
6) doesn’t take responsibility for his actions, blames the gods
7) tries to retreat many times
8) hit in forearm
Patroclus
1: Achilles best bud
2: He is a very good guy
3: goes to fight when Achilles does not
4: Killed by Hector and Euphorbius, and Apollo
5: told by his father to advise Achilles
7: kills Sarpedon
Odysseus
1: Brilliant Tactician
2: Great public speaker
3: Mediator between Achilles and Agamemnon at beginning of the book
Diomedes
1: Achaean
2: wounds Aphrodite and Ares
3: Athena allows him to see gods in disguise
4) hit in foot by Paris’ arrow
Great Ajax
1: Achaean
2) chosen to fight Hector 1 on 1, hurls a rock at Hector but he is saved by Apollo. Both end fight respectfully
Little Ajax
1) Achaean
Nestor
1) king of pylos
2) old man
3) great speaker and adviser
Maenelaus
1) king of Sparta
2) wife is Helen
Idomeneus
1) king of Crete
2) Achaean
3) kills Asius
Machaon
1) healer
2) Achaean
Calchas
1) a prophet
2) tells that Achaeans are being troubled by the gods because Agamemnon took Chryses’ daughter
Peleus
1) fr of Achilles
2) grandson of Zeus
Phoenix
1) old warrior
2) helped raise Achilles
3) fled from home after sleeping with fathers mistress for his mother
Hector
1) son of Priam and Hecuba
2) strongest of the Trojans
3) noble: fighting for his family and city
4) son is skamandrios
5) deep humanity shown in interaction with his family
Andromache
Wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax
Helen
1) most beautiful woman in the world
2) given to Paris by Aphrodite
3) Wife of Menelaus
4) treated poorly by Trojans except Hector and Priam
Aeneas
1) Trojan noble
2) confronts Diomedes , but needs to be carried away by Apollo before he gets killed
Polydamas
1) foil for Hector offering prudent battle tactics when Hector is being hard headed
2) Trojan
Glaucus
Almost fights Diomedes but doesn’t when they find out they are related
2) Trojan
3) leader of the Lykians
Dolon
1) Trojan sent to spy on argive camp
2)
Pandarus
1) Trojan archer
2) breaks truce between arrives and Trojans
3) injures Diomedes but takes a spear to the face from him after
Antenor
1) Trojan noble
2) adviser to Priam
3) says Helen should be given back to end the war
Sarpedon
1) Zeus’ son
2) Trojan
3) creates hole in Achaean’s wall, Hector later destroys them with a rock
4) killed by Patroclus, fight over his body
