Books I-VII

Question 1

grandson of Bellerophon; cousin and squire of Sarpedon

Answer 1

Glaucus

Question 2

“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 2

Glaucus to Diomed

Question 3

“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 3

Menelaus to both armies

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Scaean gates

Question 5

ugliest of the Greeks; an endless talker

Answer 5

Thersites

Question 6

daughter of Chryses; prize of Agamemnon

Answer 6

Chryseis

Question 7

“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 7

Homer’s appeal to the Muse

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Dardanus

Question 9

“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 9

Pandarus to Aeneas

Question 10

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

Answer 10

machaon

Question 11

messenger of the gods, especially of Zeus

Answer 11

Iris

Question 12

older friend and squire of Achilles; son of Menoetius

Answer 12

Patroculs

Question 13

priest of Apollo who asks Agamemnon to give his daughter back

Answer 13

Chryses

Question 14

father of Aeneas by Aphrodite

Answer 14

Anchises

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Astyanax

Question 16

the chief river god who flows through the plain below Troy

Answer 16

Scamander

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Telamon

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Antenor

Question 19

phalanx

Answer 19

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

Question 20

older friend and squire of Achilles; son of Menoetius

Answer 20

Patroclus

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Eurybates

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Antilochus

Question 23

“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 23

the Greeks about Thersites

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Nestor

Question 25

Achilles’ prize; daughter of Briseus

Answer 25

Briseis

Question 26

another name for the river Scamander

Answer 26

Xanthus

Question 27

king of the Myrmidons; father of Achilles

Answer 27

Peleus

Question 28

son of Lyacon; famous Trojan archer

Answer 28

Pandarus

Question 29

son of Priam; augur of the Trojans

Answer 29

Helenus