Characters
Plot
Epic hero
Literary Elements
Epic tale
100
Who sends the plague on the Greeks?
Who is Apollo
100
A beauty contest among Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite
What legendary event started the Trojan war
100
King of the Myrmidons
What is leader of his people
100
The story of the plague
What is a flashback
100
Tale begins in the tenth year
What is in medias res
200
Who does Achilles ask for help in seeking revenge
Who is Thetis
200
Apollo's punishment of the Greeks
What is a pestilence?
200
Sails to Troy
What is long journey
200
...like a lion is an example of what?
What is an epic simile?
200
Plea to Calliope
What is an invocation
300
Briseis
Who is the girl whom Achilles came to love?
300
The sacrifice of 100 oxen
What is a hecatomb
300
Son of Peleus and Thetis
What is mortal
300
Athena's promise to Achilles that he will get 3-fold wealth
What is foreshadowing
300
Vast numbers of Greek armies descending on Troy
What is events on a grand scale
400
Daughter of the Priest of Apollo
Who is Chryseis
400
Achilles withdraws from the war for this reason
What is arete
400
Anger
What is flaw?
400
the white-armed goddess
What is an epithet
400
Paris bringing Helen to Troy
What is events affecting an entire nation
500
Menelaus
Who is Helen's husband
500
Agamemnon blames Calchas for
What is an unpopular prophecy
500
Arete
What is reflect values of society
500
Achilles retelling of the plague to Thetis
What is repetition
500
Apollo
What is a superhuman foe
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