Iliad of Homer
How long has the Trojan War been going by the time The Iliad begins?
What is nine years?
Which plant makes the sailors forget their desire to return home?
What is the lotus?
Where does Eryximachus say love occurs?
What is everywhere?
What was hidden inside the wooden belly of the horse left outside the Trojan gates?
What is Greek warriors?
What transformation does Midas experience?
What is pigs?
Where is Achilles’ old armor most vulnerable to attack?
What is in the neck area?
Who transforms Odysseus’s sailors into pigs?
What is Circe?
To whom had Apollodorus recently retold the story of the Symposium?
What is Glaucon?
Who makes the strong and beautiful new armor Aeneas wears into battle?
What is Vulcan?
What animal does Jupiter turn Lycaon into as punishment for his impiety?
What is a wolf?
When is The Iliad thought to have been composed?
What is the eighth century b.c.?
In Penelope’s archery contest, through how many axes must Odysseus fire his arrow?
What is twelve?
Who was hiccuping during Pausanias' speech?
What is Aristophanes?
How do the young Trojan boys participate in the contests in Sicily?
What is they exhibit their horsemanship in a mock battle?
What god or goddess turns Iphis into a man?
What is Isis?
Which god helps to bring about the death of Patroclus?
What is Apollo?
Eurycleia recognizes Odysseus based on what distinguishing feature?
What is a scar on his leg?
Why wasn't the night focused solely on drinking?
What is they had celebrated the night before and wanted to drink as much as one desired for the night.
What token must Aeneas carry to be admitted alive into the underworld?
What is a golden bough?
What transformation does Midas experience?
What is he grows donkey ears?
What provokes Achilles’ rage against Agamemnon?
What is Agamemnon’s demand that Achilles hand over Briseis?
How did Odysseus's mother die?
What is grief?
Why was Achilles honored so highly?
What is he was a beloved dying for his lover.
Who begs to be executed in place of his friend Euryalus?
What is Nisus?
What poetic meter is used in the Metamorphoses?
What is dactylic hexameter?