Books I-VIII

Question 1

father of Aeneas by Aphrodite

Answer 1

Anchises

Question 2

“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 2

the Greeks about Thersites

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Dardanus

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Astyanax

Question 5

son of Lyacon; famous Trojan archer

Answer 5

Pandarus

Question 6

“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 6

Homer’s appeal to the Muse

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Nestor

Question 8

“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 8

Glaucus to Diomed

Question 9

priest of Apollo who asks Agamemnon to give his daughter back

Answer 9

Chryses

Question 10

lowest abyss under the earth; a place of punishment/torment

Answer 10

Tartarus

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Eurybates

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Scaean gates

Question 13

Achilles’ prize; daughter of Briseus

Answer 13

Briseis

Question 14

the chief river god who flows through the plain below Troy

Answer 14

Scamander

Question 15

king of the Myrmidons; father of Achilles

Answer 15

Peleus

Question 16

“Would I were as sure of being immortal and never growing old, and of being worshipped to Athene and Apollo, as I am that this day will bring evil to the Argives.”

Answer 16

Hector to the Trojan army

Question 17

“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 17

Pandarus to Aeneas

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Antilochus

Question 19

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

Answer 19

machaon

Question 20

older friend and squire of Achilles; son of Menoetius

Answer 20

Patroclus

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Telamon

Question 22

daughter of Chryses; prize of Agamemnon

Answer 22

Chryseis

Question 23

son of Priam; augur of the Trojans

Answer 23

Helenus

Question 24

ugliest of the Greeks; an endless talker

Answer 24

Thersites

Question 25

phalanx

Answer 25

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

Question 26

“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 26

Menelaus to both armies

Question 27

messenger of the gods, especially of Zeus

Answer 27

Iris

Question 28

another name for the river Scamander

Answer 28

Xanthus

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Antenor

Question 30

grandson of Bellerophon; cousin and squire of Sarpedon

Answer 30

Glaucus

Question 31

older friend and squire of Achilles; son of Menoetius

Answer 31

Patroculs