3 Homer - Iliad - Lattimore & Wilcock

Question 1

Agenor

Answer 1

Agenor (ah JEN or): King of Tyre, Phoenicia; father of Cadmus [TPC]

Question 2

Apollo

Answer 2

Apollo (uh PAA low): god of music, prophecy, archery [MPA]

Question 3

Ares

Answer 3

Ares (AIR ees): Greek god of war; ally of Troy

Question 4

Artemis

Answer 4

Artemis (ARE tah muss): goddess of hunting; protectress of young girls

Question 5

Asclepius

Answer 5

Asclepius (uh SKLEE pee uhs): god of medicine, his teacher was the centaur Chiron (KIGH ruhn)

Question 6

Athos

Answer 6

Athos: mountain and peninsula in the northern Aegean Sea

Question 7

Aulis

Answer 7

Aulis (AWL is): a port in the narrows, west the island of Euboea (you-BE-ah)

Question 8

Boeotia

Answer 8

Boeotia (bee OW she-uh): east central Greece; north of Attica separated by Cithaeron (suh-THEE-run) mountains

Question 9

Boreas

Answer 9

Boreas: north wind

Question 10

Cassandra

Answer 10

Cassandra (kuh SAN druh): daughter of Priam; uttered true prophecies, but was never believed; predicted the ruin of Troy

Question 11

Charon
vs.
Chiron

Answer 11

Charon (Keh ruhn; Karin): ferryman who conveyed dead souls across the river Styx
vs.
Chiron (KIGH ruhn): wisest Centaur; instructor of Asclepius (uh SKLEE pee uhs)

Question 12

Chryses

Answer 12

Chryses (CRY-sez): city in southwestern Troad

Question 13

Chryseis

Answer 13

Chryseis (cry-SEE-us): daughter of priest Chryses; taken as war-prize by Agamemnon

Question 14

Eëtion

Answer 14

Eëtion (eee-shun): father of Andromache (ann-DRA-muh-key); King of Thebes-under-Plakos [AKT]

Question 15

Euboea

Answer 15

Euboea (you-BE-ah): large island east of central Greece

Question 16

Ganymede

Answer 16

Ganymede (GAN-uh-mead): a beautiful youth carried off to be the cupbearer of the gods

Question 17

Glaucus

Answer 17

Glaucus (glau·kuhs): Lycian (LIS-she-uh-n) ally of Troy [GLT]

Question 18

Helen

Answer 18

Helen: carried off by Paris; caused Trojan War; wife of Menelaus (meh nah LAY us)

Question 19

Hellesponte

Answer 19

Hellesponte (HELL-ush-spont): the Dardanelles Strait in modern-day Turkey

Question 20

Hermes

Answer 20

Hermes (HER mees): messenger; god of commerce; Roman Mercury

Question 21

Hesperides

Answer 21

Hesperides (hus PEAR uh deez): nymphs; light at sunset

Question 22

Hyperion

Answer 22

Hyperion (hai PEE ree uhn): ‘one who goes before’, father of Helios (sun)

Question 23

Ida

Answer 23

Ida: mountain and range, in southern Troad

Question 24

Illion

Answer 24

Illion (I-leon): early Greek name for the city of Troy

Question 25

Iris

Answer 25

Iris (EYE-rus): Greek rainbow goddess and messenger