Book 2 Flashcards
In book 2 of the Iliad, who sends a false dream…
Zeus
In book 2 of the Iliad, who, in the form of Nestor…
Zeus
In book 2 of the Iliad, to whom does Zeus send a false dream…
Agamemnon
Who, carrying a scepter made by Hephaestus…
Agamemnon probably
In book 2 of the Iliad, who tells Athena Atrytone…
Hera
Bow-legged…
Thersites
Shoulders that cave in…
Thersites
Who, beaten down by the staff of Odysseus…
Thersites
What man, beaten by Odysseus after he insulted Agamemnon…
Thersites
A serpent with blood-red…
Aulis/Calchas
What man, with the gaze of Zeus, waist of Ares, and chest of Poseidon…
Agamemnon
What leaders of the Boeotians in the Trojan war…
Peneleus and Leitus
What scion of Ares and son of Chalcodon…
Elephenor
50 ships with 120 men each…
Peneleus and Leitus
30 ships from Minyan Orchomenus and Aspledon…
Ascalaphus and Ialmenus
Who, alongside Arcesilaus, Prothoenor, and Clonius…
Peneleus and Leitus
40 black ships from Phocis…
Schedius and Epistrophus
What short man, who wore a linen corslet…
LDE
Though he was short, who was more skillful than any other Hellene or Achaean with the spear….
LDE
Forty black Locrian ships…
LDE
What region, whose men were known for wearing long hair behind them and carrying spears of ash-wood…
Abantes
What leader of the Abantes…
Elephenor
40 Abantian ships…
Elephenor
50 Athenian ships…
Menestheus
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
