characters in Iliad

Question 1

Son of Peleus and Thetis, greatest of the Greek warriors

Answer 1

Achilles

Question 2

Brother to Menelaus, leader of the Greek armies

Answer 2

Agamemnon

Question 3

Achilles beloved friend and companion

Answer 3

Patroclus

Question 4

Smartest of all the Greeks

Answer 4

Odysseus

Question 5

Brave and young Greek soldier who takes Achilles place in battle when he is absent

Answer 5

Diomedes

Question 6

A very large Greek warrior

Answer 6

Great Ajax

Question 7

often fights alongside great Ajax

Answer 7

Little Ajax

Question 8

King of Pylos and the oldest Achaean commander

Answer 8

Nestor

Question 9

King of Sparta, was married to Helen before she was taken

Answer 9

Menelaus

Question 10

King of Crete and a respected commander

Answer 10

Idomeneus

Question 11

a healer who is wounded by Paris in book 11

Answer 11

Machaon

Question 12

an important soothsayer who identifies the cause of the plague in book 1 which causes the rift between Achilles and Agamemnon

Answer 12

Calchas

Question 13

Achilles’ father and the grandson of Zeus

Answer 13

Peleus

Question 14

a kind old warrior who helped to raise Achilles and is part of the embassy to him in book 9

Answer 14

Phoenix

Question 15

Achilles elite soldiers

Answer 15

The Myrmidons

Question 16

son of Priam and Hecuba, husband of Andromache, leader of the Trojan army

Answer 16

Hector

Question 17

King of Troy, husband of Hecuba, father of Paris and Hector

Answer 17

Priam

Question 18

Queen of troy, mother of Hector, wife of Priam

Answer 18

Hecuba

Question 19

son of Priam and Hecuba, brother to Hector, responsible to the abduction of Helen and the start of the war

Answer 19

Paris

Question 20

former wife of Menelaus, current partner of Paris, arguably the centre of the war.

Answer 20

Helen

Question 21

son of Aphrodite and a mighty Trojan warrior

Answer 21

Aeneas

Question 22

Wife of Hector

Answer 22

Andromache

Question 23

Son of Hector and Andromache

Answer 23

Astyanax

Question 24

A level headed Trojan who is the voice of reason for Hector

Answer 24

Polydamus

Question 25

Has an exchange of armour with Diomedes after finding out their grandfathers were familiar with each other

Answer 25

Glaucus

Question 26

A Trojan warrior who tries to fight Achilles and delays him long enough for his Trojans to retreat within the walls

Answer 26

Agenor

Question 27

A trojan spy sent on a night mission in book 10

Answer 27

Dolon

Question 28

Trojan soldier who broke the truce in book 3

Answer 28

Pandarus

Question 29

A Trojan nobleman who argues that Helen should be returned to Menelaus

Answer 29

Antenor

Question 30

Son of Zeus who fought on the Trojan side

Answer 30

Sarpedon

Question 31

Chryses’ daughter, a priest of Apollo

Answer 31

Chryseis

Question 32

war prize of Achilles that sparks the feud between him and Agamemnon

Answer 32

Briseis

Question 33

A priest of Apollo in a Trojan-allied town; the father of Chryseis, whom Agamemnon takes as a war prize.

Answer 33

Chryses

Question 34

deals the initial fatal blow to Patroclus in battle

Answer 34

Euphorbos