Gods & Goddesses
Girl captured from the Trojans by Achilles.
Who is Briseis?
Is given an Aristeia by Athena
Diomedes
Apollo sends this after Chryses desperately prays to him.
What is the plague?
Extended Metaphor
A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem. It is oftem more than one sentence, and sometimes consists of a full paragraph.
Zeus' messenger
Who is Hermes?
Closest friend of Achilles
Who is Patroclus?
Chryses offered this to Agamenmon, but he refused.
What is ransom?
Define shrink
To disappear
Mother of Achillies
Who is Thetis?
seer or prophet, who counsels the Greeks.
Who is Calchas?
Achilles does this in book one which is very costly for the Greeks
Pulls out of the Trojan War.
In the following sentence which is the verb?
We walked to the bakery together.
God of poetry, music, and prophecy; sides with the Trojans.
Who is Apollo?
King of Mycenae and commander of the Greek forces.
Who is Agamemnon?
On tenth day, he called all ranks to assembly.
Who is Achilles?
Define recoil
To flinch back
Thetis goes to this god to ask him if he could let the Trojans win some battles so the Greeks realize how much they need Achilles.
Who is Zeus?
Hector's son is
Astyanax
Leader of the Myrmidons, mightiest of the Greek warriors.
Who is Achilles?
In book 5, Zeus tells who that he hates him?
Ares
Definition of bereft
Deprived