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Iliad Characters Flashcards

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Achilles

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1) Achaean
2) most powerful warrior in Iliad
3) Son of Peleus and Thetis
4) Briseis was his prize
5) Leads the Myrmidons
6) Killed by Paris
7) double fate: can either live a long life without glory, or a short life with a lot of glory
8) prideful

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Agamemnon

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1: Takes Achilles’ prize Briseis
2: Cause of Achilles’ withdrawal
3: Brother of King Menelaus
4: Leader of Achaean army
5: not all that great of a leader, tells army they can go home to test them; tries to retreat many times
6) doesn’t take responsibility for his actions, blames the gods
7) tries to retreat many times
8) hit in forearm

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Patroclus

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1: Achilles best bud
2: He is a very good guy
3: goes to fight when Achilles does not
4: Killed by Hector and Euphorbius, and Apollo
5: told by his father to advise Achilles
7: kills Sarpedon

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Odysseus

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1: Brilliant Tactician
2: Great public speaker
3: Mediator between Achilles and Agamemnon at beginning of the book

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Diomedes

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1: Achaean
2: wounds Aphrodite and Ares
3: Athena allows him to see gods in disguise
4) hit in foot by Paris’ arrow

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Great Ajax

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1: Achaean

2) chosen to fight Hector 1 on 1, hurls a rock at Hector but he is saved by Apollo. Both end fight respectfully

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Little Ajax

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1) Achaean

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Nestor

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1) king of pylos
2) old man
3) great speaker and adviser

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Maenelaus

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1) king of Sparta

2) wife is Helen

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Idomeneus

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1) king of Crete
2) Achaean
3) kills Asius

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Machaon

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1) healer

2) Achaean

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Calchas

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1) a prophet

2) tells that Achaeans are being troubled by the gods because Agamemnon took Chryses’ daughter

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Peleus

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1) fr of Achilles

2) grandson of Zeus

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Phoenix

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1) old warrior
2) helped raise Achilles
3) fled from home after sleeping with fathers mistress for his mother

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Hector

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1) son of Priam and Hecuba
2) strongest of the Trojans
3) noble: fighting for his family and city
4) son is skamandrios
5) deep humanity shown in interaction with his family

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Andromache

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Wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax

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Helen

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1) most beautiful woman in the world
2) given to Paris by Aphrodite
3) Wife of Menelaus
4) treated poorly by Trojans except Hector and Priam

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Aeneas

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1) Trojan noble

2) confronts Diomedes , but needs to be carried away by Apollo before he gets killed

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Polydamas

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1) foil for Hector offering prudent battle tactics when Hector is being hard headed
2) Trojan

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Glaucus

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Almost fights Diomedes but doesn’t when they find out they are related

2) Trojan
3) leader of the Lykians

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Dolon

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1) Trojan sent to spy on argive camp

2)

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Pandarus

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1) Trojan archer
2) breaks truce between arrives and Trojans
3) injures Diomedes but takes a spear to the face from him after

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Antenor

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1) Trojan noble
2) adviser to Priam
3) says Helen should be given back to end the war

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Sarpedon

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1) Zeus’ son
2) Trojan
3) creates hole in Achaean’s wall, Hector later destroys them with a rock
4) killed by Patroclus, fight over his body

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Daughter of Chryses

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Chryseis

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Zeus

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1) hera’s husband
2) neutral in war
3) asked by Thetis to side with the Trojans for a bit

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Hera

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1) wife of Zeus
2) argive
3) cunning and conniving
4) queen of the gods

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Athena

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1) goddess of wisdom
2) daughter of Zeus
3) Achaean

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Thetis

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1) sea nymph
2) mother of Achilles
3) gets Haphaestus to make Achilles new armor
4) gets Zeus to hurt the Achaeans
5) tormented by the fact that Achilles will die young

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Apollo

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1) son of Zeus
2) Trojan
3) God of sun and the arts

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Aphrodite

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1) goddess of love
2) daughter of Zeus
3) married to Haphaestus
4) Trojan

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Poseidon

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1) Brother of Zeus

2) hates Trojans because they never paid him for building their city walls

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Haphaestus

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1) god of fire
2) crippled
3) makes Achilles new armor

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Artemis

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1) goddess of the hunt
2) daughter of Zeus
3) Trojan

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Ares

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1) god of war

2) Trojan

36
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Hermes

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1) escorts Priam to Achilles

37
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Iris

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Messenger for the gods

38
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Odysseus

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1) night raid with Diomedes

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Paris

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1) hated by the Trojans
2) took Helen
3) doesn’t fight in battle too much
4) kills Achilles

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Starts in the middle of things

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In medias res

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Stories that repeat throughout the story

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Type scene

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“Blind folly” clouds a person’s sense of what is right

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Atê

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Honor in the sense of status or respect. Similar to prestige.

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Timê

44
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Prize that shows honor

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Geras

45
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Fame or glory the hero seeks

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Kleos

46
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Arrogance of one who does not know his limits

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Hubris

47
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1st line

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Rage- Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles,

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Thersites

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Ugliest Achaean
Hated by all
Makes fun of Agamemnon after his test

49
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Aristeia

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A hero in battle has his finest moments

50
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god blood

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Ichor

51
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Achaeans sent to Achilles to bring him back

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Phoenix, Ajax , Odysseus

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Eurypylus

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Healer taken care of by Petroclus

53
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Who decided to try to charge the achaean’s gate

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Asius

54
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Antilochus

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Son of Nestor

Breaks bad news to Achilles

55
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Hector’s little brother killed by Achilles

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Polydorus

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River that Achilles fights

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Scamander

57
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Daughter of Priam

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Cassandra

1) always tells the truth but no one believes her
2) first to see Priam coming back with the body of Hector

58
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Final line

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And so the Trojans buried Hector, breaker of horses

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Suitors

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Antinous and Eurymachus

60
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Old trustworthy nurse

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Eurycleia

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Nestor son

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Pisistratus

62
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Healer helped by Patroclus

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Eurypylus

63
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Killed Agamemnon

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Aegisthus

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Who took revenge on his fathers killer

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Orestes

65
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Odysseus home

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Ithaca

66
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Athena’s first disguise

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Mentes

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Old god of the sea captured by Menelaus

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Proteus

68
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Nymph who helps Menelaus

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Eidothea

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