Books I-X

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Nestor

Question 2

grandson of Bellerophon; cousin and squire of Sarpedon

Answer 2

Glaucus

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Scaean gates

Question 4

king of the Myrmidons; father of Achilles

Answer 4

Peleus

Question 5

son of Lyacon; famous Trojan archer

Answer 5

Pandarus

Question 6

messenger of the gods, especially of Zeus

Answer 6

Iris

Question 7

daughter of Chryses; prize of Agamemnon

Answer 7

Chryseis

Question 8

“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 8

the Greeks about Thersites

Question 9

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

Answer 9

machaon

Question 10

“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 10

Glaucus to Diomed

Question 11

son of Priam; augur of the Trojans

Answer 11

Helenus

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Telamon

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Dardanus

Question 14

son of Eumedes; scout of the Trojans

Answer 14

Dolon

Question 15

another name for the river Scamander

Answer 15

Xanthus

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Astyanax

Question 17

“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 17

Hector to the Trojan army

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Antenor

Question 19

ugliest of the Greeks; an endless talker

Answer 19

Thersites

Question 20

“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 20

Homer’s appeal to the Muse

Question 21

“It was I, Achilles, who had the making of you; I loved you with all my heart: for you would eat neither at home nor when you had gone out elsewhere, till I had first set you upon my knees, cut up the dainty morsel that you were to eat, and held the wine cup to your lips. Many a time have you slobbered your wine in baby helplessness over my shirt. I had infinite trouble with you, but I knew that heaven vouchsafed me no offspring of my own, and i made of son of you, Achilles, that in my hour of need you might protect me.

Answer 21

Phoenix to Achilles

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Antilochus

Question 23

surrogate father to Achilles; cursed to have no children

Answer 23

Phoenix

Question 24

priest of Apollo who asks Agamemnon to give his daughter back

Answer 24

Chryses

Question 25

Achilles’ grandfather; his father Zeus made men of ants for him - Myrmidons

Answer 25

Aeacus

Question 26

older friend and squire of Achilles; son of Menoetius

Answer 26

Patroculs

Question 27

the chief river god who flows through the plain below Troy

Answer 27

Scamander

Question 28

Achilles’ prize; daughter of Briseus

Answer 28

Briseis

Question 29

“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 29

Menelaus to both armies

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Tartarus

Question 31

father of Aeneas by Aphrodite

Answer 31

Anchises

Question 32

king of the Thracians

Answer 32

Rhesus

Question 33

phalanx

Answer 33

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

Question 34

older friend and squire of Achilles; son of Menoetius

Answer 34

Patroclus

Question 35

“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 35

Pandarus to Aeneas

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Eurybates

Question 37

“My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I shall not return alive but my name will live forever; whereas If I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me. To the rest of you, then, I say, ‘Go home, for you will not take Ilium.’ Zeus has held his hand over her to protect her, and her people have taken heart.”

Answer 37

Achilles to the embassy

Question 38

“Think not, Dolon, for all the good information you have given us, that you shall escape now you are in our hands, for if we ransom you or let you go, you will come some second time to the ships of the Achaeans either as a spy or as an open enemy, but if I kill you and make an end of you, you will give no more trouble.”

Answer 38

Diomed to Dolon