The Iliad

Question 1

Main Greek tribe at the time

Answer 1

Achaeans

Question 2

Sons of Atreus

Answer 2

Agamemnon and Menalaus

Question 3

Husband of Helen

Answer 3

Menalaus

Question 4

Caused Achaeans to be plagued

Answer 4

Agamemnon refuses to return Chryseis to Chyrses

Question 5

To replace Chryseis, Agamemnon takes her from Achilles

Answer 5

Briseis

Question 6

Achilles’ parents

Answer 6

Thetis and Peleus

Question 7

Aged King of Pylos

Answer 7

Nestor

Question 8

King of Troy

Answer 8

Priam

Question 9

Achilles’ friend

Answer 9

Patroclus

Question 10

God of the River Achilles fights

Answer 10

Xanthus

Question 11

After killing Hector, Achilles ____.

Answer 11

Lashes him to his chariot and drags it across the battlefield. He continues to drag him for 9 days.

Question 12

Achilles Leads the _____.

Answer 12

Myrmidons

Question 13

Kills Achilles

Answer 13

Paris

Question 14

Daughter of Priam Achilles falls in love with after the poem.

Answer 14

Polyxena

Question 15

The Iliad is set in which century?

Answer 15

12th century BC (Bronze age)

Question 16

The Iliad was composed between ___ and ____.

Answer 16

750 and 650 BC.

Question 17

After Achilles dies, his armor is awarded to _____.

Answer 17

Odysseus

Question 18

To defeat Troy, the Achaeans must retrieve the ____ and the _____.

Answer 18

Palladium and Arrows of Hercules

Question 19

Kills Paris with the Arrows of Hercules

Answer 19

Philoctetes

Question 20

Convinces the Trojans that the wooden horse is gift to Athena, and that the Achaeans hope the Trojans destroy it.

Answer 20

Sinon

Question 21

Wounds two Gods in combat

Answer 21

Diomedes

Question 22

The Aeantes are

Answer 22

Litte and Great Ajax

Question 23

Achilles is from

Answer 23

Phythia

Question 24

Menelaus is from

Answer 24

Sparta

Question 25

Agamemnon is from

Answer 25

Mycenae

Question 26

Hector’s wife

Answer 26

Andromache

Question 27

Priam’s wife

Answer 27

Hecuba

Question 28

Exchanges armor with Diomedes when he realizes their families are friends

Answer 28

Glaucus

Question 29

Son of Zeus killed by Patroclus

Answer 29

Sarpedon