Chapter 5 Iphigenia

Question 0

Who is Ajax

Answer 0

Greek hero from Salamis

Question 1

Who is Diomede

Answer 1

Greek hero from Argos

Question 2

Who is Teucer?

Answer 2

Greek archer; half brother of Ajax

Question 3

Who is Ajax; son of Oileus?

Answer 3

Greek spearman and swift runner

Question 4

Who is Nestor?

Answer 4

Greek elder, from Pylos

Question 5

Who is Iphigenia?

Answer 5

Daughter of Agamemnon

Question 6

Who is Clytemnestra?

Answer 6

Wife of Agamemnon

Question 7

Who is Calchas?

Answer 7

Agamemnon’s soothsayer

Question 8

What does high handed mean?

Answer 8

Arrogant, overbearing

Question 9

What does indignation mean?

Answer 9

Anger at unfair treatment

Question 10

Name the great Greek chieftains who met at Aulis

Answer 10

Achilles, Odysseus, Diomede, Gigantic Ajax and his brother Teucer, smaller Ajax, and Nestor

Question 11

Why was there a delay of their journey?

Answer 11

They couldn’t get a favorable wind to sail

Question 12

Why was Agamemnon disliked by the other kings?

Answer 12

He was high handed and haughty

Question 13

What did Agamemnon ask his soothsayer Calchas to find out for him?

Answer 13

Calchas was told to find out how to get a fair wind

Question 14

What did Calchas find out from the gods?

Answer 14

They were mad at Agemnon. To get a fair wind he had to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia on the altar of Artemis

Question 15

Agamemnon was “genuinely fond” of Iphigenia but “she was less to him than his pride”

What does this mean?

Answer 15

He did not want to sacrifice his daughter because he was fond of her. He loved himself more and would rather sacrifice her than go home in disgrace because the gods would
Not give h a fair wind

Question 16

What was the reaction of Achilles to Agamemnon’s sacrifice of his daughter?

What was Clytemnestra’s reaction

Answer 16

Achilles pled for iphigneia’s life because he was moved by her courage.

Clytemnestra was furious and promised vengeance. She kept his axe sharp and waited for her chance

Question 17

What was the final fate of Iphigenia?as Agamemnon plunged his knife into her, Artemis saved her and took her to Tauris where she was a priestess. No one knew she was saved.

Answer 17

as Agamemnon plunged his knife into her, Artemis saved her and took her to Tauris where she was a priestess. No one knew she was saved.

Question 18

Who said “we are indeed in the gods ill favor. It is better that we go home”

Answer 18

Speaker Calchas

Spoken to Agamemnon

Question 19

Who said “what treasure is too great for the gods to demand of me”

Answer 19

Agamemnon

Question 20

What do the gods demand of Agamemnon

Answer 20

The sacrifice of his daughter

Question 21

Who said “I will repay you for this hour if it takes me ten years of waiting”

Answer 21

Clytemnestra

Question 22

Who was Clytemnestra angry with?

Answer 22

Agamemnon

Question 23

What does Clytemnestra want vengeance on Agamemnon

Answer 23

Because he sacrificed their daughter