Names and Places (A-C)

Question 1

Aeaea

Answer 1

Place where Circe Lives

Question 2

Aegisthus

Answer 2

Clytemnestra took him as her lover and killed Agamemnon together

Question 3

Aeolia

Answer 3

Island kingdom of Aeolus, surrounded by a wall of bronze

Question 4

Aeolus

Answer 4

Ruler of the winds

Question 5

Achillies

Answer 5

Killed by Paris

Question 6

Agamemnon

Answer 6

Got cheated on and killed by Aegisthus

Question 7

Ajax

Answer 7

Attempted to obtain Achillie’s armour

Question 8

Alcinous

Answer 8

Gives Odysseus a boat

Question 9

Anticlea

Answer 9

MOther of Odysseus

Question 10

Antinous

Answer 10

One of the suitors, tries to take Odysseus throne and killed first by odysseus

Question 11

Antiphates

Answer 11

Ate one of Odysseus men

Question 12

Aphrodite

Answer 12

Goddes of love and beauty competed for the golden apple

Question 13

Apollo

Answer 13

GOd of everything

Question 14

Ares

Answer 14

One of the 12 major gods and god of war

Question 15

Arete

Answer 15

a noble and active superintendent of the household of her husband treated Odysseus hospitably

Question 16

Artemis

Answer 16

took the side of the Trojans

Question 17

Athena

Answer 17

most important and also the patron goddess of Odysseus and his family

Question 18

Calypso

Answer 18

kept Odysseus on the island for 7 years also built his boats and gave him supplies

Question 19

Charybdis

Answer 19

Dangerous whirlpool

Question 20

Cicones

Answer 20

Aided the Trojans and killed six of Odysseus’ men

Question 21

Circe

Answer 21

Lived on Aeaea and changes Odysseus men into swine

Question 22

Cimmerians

Answer 22

Lived close to the entrance of Hades

Question 23

Crete

Answer 23

A land in the midst of the wine-dark sea