Books I-VI Flashcards
nickname for Hector’s son, Scamandrius; means “king of the city”
Astyanax
“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.”
the Greeks about Thersites
“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.”
Homer’s appeal to the Muse
“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.”
Pandarus to Aeneas
physician of the Greeks from Thessaly; son of Asclepius, a famous healer
machaon
Ithacan and faithful servant of Odysseus; a herald of the Greeks
Eurybates
daughter of Chryses; prize of Agamemnon
Chryseis
“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.”
Menelaus to both armies
son of Nestor; leading fighter of the men of Pylos; friend of Achilles
Antilochus
Achilles’ prize; daughter of Briseus
Briseis
elderly counselor to Priam and the Trojans; a whirring “cicada”
Antenor
venerable leader of the Pylians and the oldest and wisest Greek chieftain
Nestor
father of Aeneas by Aphrodite
Anchises
ugliest of the Greeks; an endless talker
Thersites
grandson of Bellerophon; cousin and squire of Sarpedon
Glaucus
phalanx
battle formation of tightly grouped warriors, long spears, and overlapping shields
son of Lyacon; famous Trojan archer
Pandarus
messenger of the gods, especially of Zeus
Iris
priest of Apollo who asks Agamemnon to give his daughter back
Chryses
main gates of Troy from which non-combatants observe the battles
Scaean gates
older friend and squire of Achilles; son of Menoetius
Patroclus
“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.”
Glaucus to Diomed
son of Priam; augur of the Trojans
Helenus
another name for the river Scamander
Xanthus
the chief river god who flows through the plain below Troy
Scamander
older friend and squire of Achilles; son of Menoetius
Patroculs
