Gods and Goddesses
This god considered saving Sarpedon from death on the battlefield.
Who is Zeus?
This minor see goddess "of the silver feet" was married to the mortal Peleus.
Who is Thetis?
How does Paris die in the Iliad?
He doesn't.
The invocation tells us that the Iliad is going to be about this.
What is the "anger of Achilleus...and it's devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians."
Number of Trojan youths Achilleus sacrifices atop Patroklus's funeral pyre.
What is 12?
This is the god was upset by the building of the wall around the Achaian ships.
Who is Poseidon?
They built the wall around Troy - it's a shame the Trojans refused to pay!
Who are Poseidon and Apollo?
This person's story is considered by some to be an interpolation, that is, a later addition to the Iliad.
Who is Dolon?
Apollo is angry at the Greeks because Agamemnon will not return this.
What is the girl, Chrysies, the daughter of Apollo's priest.
The deity who stops Patroklus from attacking the city itself.
Who is Apollo?
This deity inspired the aristeia of Diomedes.
Who is Athena?
Aristeia derived from this Greek word meaning "excellence."
What is arete?
This person was killed while wearing armor once worn by Peleus.
Who is Patroklus?
When Hector goes to kiss his son, the boy does this.
What is cry?
What is return his body to his parents.
This deity was responsible for visiting the plague on the Achaian camp in Book One.
Who is Apollo?
This man, the "man of many tricks," faked insanity to get out of going to war with Troy.
Who is Odysseus?
This person was the "face who launched a thousand ships," according to the Elizabethan playwright, Christopher Marlowe.
Who is Helen?
Athena convinced Hector to fight by pretending to be this person.
Who is Hector's brother, Deiphobus?
The two people who tell Priam that "his heart is like iron."
Who are Hekabe and Achilleus?
Who tossed the golden apple that led to the Judgement of Paris?
Who is Eris?
This girl was sacrificed by her father so the weather would clear and they could sail to Troy.
Who was Iphigenia?
This was the leader of the Greek army, Menelaus's brother.
Who is Agamemnon?
When Achilles confronts Hector, Hector does this.
What is run?
Number of years that Helen has been in Troy.
What is twenty years?