Gods
Female Characters
Literary Devices
Who Said It?
Male Characters
100
He sent arrows flying at the Greeks until they gave Chryseis back to her father.
Who is Apollo?
100
Paris took her from her husband.
Who is Helen?
100
The flowing-haired Achaians; swift-footed Achilleus; Hera of the white arms
What are epithets?
100
"I shall take the fair-cheeked Briseis, your prize."
Who is Agamemnon?
100
The brother of Agamemnon.
Who is Menelaus?
200
She whisked Paris out of the battle with Menelaus.
Who is Aphrodite?
200
She said, "You are father to me and my honored mother, you are my brother and you it is who are my young husband.
Who is Andromache?
200
"They went against their will beside the beach of the barren salt sea and came to the shelters and ships of the Myrmidons."
What is alliteration?
200
"Dear Lady, what can be the great evils done to you by Priam, and the sons of Priam, that you are thus furious forever to bring down the strong-founded city of Ilion?"
Who is Zeus?
200
The father of Hektor and Paris.
Who is King Priam?
300
These two goddesses wanted Troy to fall.
Who are Hera and Athena?
300
She said, "How I wish you had died there, beaten down by the stronger man, who was once my husband."
Who is Helen?
300
"Now, as soon as Menelaus the warlike caught sight of him making his way with long strides out in front of the army, he was glad, like a lion who comes on a mighty carcass, in his hunger chancing upon the body of a horned stag or goat; who eats it eagerly, although against him are hastening the hounds in their speed . . . "
What is an epic simile?
300
"No man is going to hurl me to Hades, unless it is fated, but as for fate, I think that no man yet has escaped it, once it has taken its first form, neither brave man nor coward."
Who is Hektor?
300
The oldest Greek general.
Who is Nestor?
400
She said, "Send an arrow flying against Menelaus and win glory and gratitude in the sight of all the Trojans."
Who is Athena?
400
"She brushed it away from his skin as lightly as when a mother brushes a fly away from her child who is lying in sweet sleep."
Who is Athena?
400
"The Trojans came on with clamour and shouting, like wildfowl."
What is a simile?
400
"Then I must lose you soon, my child, by what you are saying, since it is decreed your death must come soon after Hektor's."
Who is Thetis?
400
The Greek's best public speaker
Who is Odysseus?
500
Troy was his favorite city on earth.
Who is Zeus?
500
"Of all the cities, there are three that are dearest to my own heart: whenever they become hateful to you, sack utterly."
Who is Hera?
500
"They spoke, but none of this would the son of Kronos accomplish."
What is foreshadowing?
500
"So friend, you die also. Why all this clamour about it?"
Who is Achilles?
500
The river that attacked Achilles
Who is Xanthos?
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