Trojan War Characters

Question 1

Mother of Achilles, sea nymph

Answer 1

Thetis

Question 2

King of Sparta, husband of Helen

Answer 2

Menelaus

Question 3

Queen of Sparta, Married to Menelaus

Answer 3

Helen

Question 4

King of Mycenaea, brother of Menelaus, high king of the Greeks

Answer 4

Agamemnon

Question 5

King of Ithica, came up with the idea for the Trojan horse

Answer 5

Odysseus

Question 6

King of Argos

Answer 6

Diomedes

Question 7

King of salamis

Answer 7

Ajax

Question 8

King of Pylos, oldest and wisest greek king

Answer 8

Nestor

Question 9

Son of Peleus and Thetis, greatest greek hero

Answer 9

Achilles

Question 10

Achilles’s boyhood friend and companion, killed by hector

Answer 10

Patroclus

Question 11

Famous centaur, trained Achilles

Answer 11

Chiron

Question 12

Healer among the Greeks

Answer 12

Machaon

Question 13

Has the bow of Hercules, was abandoned on the island Lemnos, kills Paris with a poisoned arrow

Answer 13

Philoctetes

Question 14

Greek spy who convinced the Trojans that the wooden horse was a gift to Athena

Answer 14

Simon

Question 15

King of Troy

Answer 15

Priam

Question 16

Queen of Troy

Answer 16

Hecuba

Question 17

Prince of Troy who fell in love with Helen

Answer 17

Paris

Question 18

Married to Paris

Answer 18

Oenone

Question 19

Prince of Troy who was killed by Achilles, greatest Trojan fighter

Answer 19

Hector

Question 20

Trojan prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus

Answer 20

Sarpedon

Question 21

Trojan prince who survives the war and is an ancestor of the Romans

Answer 21

Aeneas

Question 22

Trojan spy, killed by Diomedes and Odysseus

Answer 22

Dolan

Question 23

Trojan priest sea serpents killed him and his sons for desecrating the wooden horse

Answer 23

Laocoon

Question 24

Trojan ally, king of Thrace, killed by Odysseus and Diomedes when they stole his horses

Answer 24

King rhesus

Question 25

Trojan ally, queen of the amazons, killed by Achilles

Answer 25

Penthesilea

Question 26

Trojan ally, King of the Ethiopians, killed by Achilles

Answer 26

King Memnon

Question 27

Trojan captive girl whose father was a priest of Apollo, Agamemnon had to return her

Answer 27

Chryseis

Question 28

Trojan captive girl taken from Achilles by Agamemnon

Answer 28

Briseis

Question 29

Father of Achilles

Answer 29

Peleus

Question 30

Oceanid, married to Peleus, mother of Achilles

Answer 30

Thetis

Question 31

Goddess of strife and discord, was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis

Answer 31

Eris

Question 32

King of the gods, promised Thetis a Trojan victory

Answer 32

Zeus

Question 33

Causes Helen to fall in love with Paris, sides with the Trojans

Answer 33

Aphrodite

Question 34

Sides with the Greeks because Aphrodite sides with the Trojan, Queen of the gods

Answer 34

Hera

Question 35

Goddess of wisdom, sides with the Greeks because Aphrodite sides with the Trojans

Answer 35

Athena

Question 36

God of music, sides with Trojans, accompanies hector into battle

Answer 36

Apollo

Question 37

God of the sea, sides with the Greeks

Answer 37

Poseidon