The Iliad

Plot Questions

100

Who is mistaken for Achilles?

What is Patroclus?

200

What does Achilles do to Hector's body?

What is drags Hector's body around the city of Troy?

300

What is Achilles's strongest motivation for returning to fight the Trojans?

What is avenging Patroclus's death?

400

Why does King Priam visit Achilles' tent?

What is to retrieve Hector's body?

500

Achilles must wait for this, on his mother's orders, before returning to the fight. 

What is new armor? 

Notes

100

The author of the Iliad is

What is Homer?

200

The Iliad takes place during what war? 

What is the Trojan War

300

A literary device common in epic poems involving an extended description by means of comparison. 

What is an epic simile? 

400

A literary device where a book or poem starts in the middle of the action. 

What is in media res? 

500

3 main characteristics of epic poems:  

1. The hero is outstanding. They might be important, and historically or legendarily significant.
2. The setting is large. It covers many nations, or the known world.
3. The action is made of deeds of great valor or requiring superhuman courage.
4. Supernatural forces—gods, angels, demons—insert themselves in the action.
5. It is written in a very special style (verse as opposed to prose).

Who said it and to whom?

100

And so they buried Hector, breaker of horses.

Narrator. End of Book

200

If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy,
my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies.
If I voyage back to the fatherland I love, my pride, my glory dies…

What is Achilles to Odysseus 

300

"If you go to Troy, you'll never come home. Your glory walks hand in hand with your doom."

What is Thetis (his mother) to Achilles?

400

"Out of all the fighters, I hate HIM the most." Who said it and who is he referring to?

What is Agamemnon about Achilles?

500

I have endured what no one on earth has endured before. I kissed the hands of the man who killed my son.

What is Priam to Achilles?

Who am I?

100

I am the leader of the Greek army. Achilles got mad at me when I took his woman.

What is Agamemnon

200

I kidnapped Helen because I love her and she was promised to me by Aphrodite.

What is Paris?

300

I am a princess, a wife, and a mother to one son. I am brave and respectful. I am married to a great man. 

What is Andromache? 

400

I put on my cousin's armor and pretended to be him. It ultimately cost me my life.

What is Patroclus?

500

I am a wise old man. I offer advice, but I am not always heeded. 

What is Nestor?

Which god am I and which side did I help?

100

I am the god of archery and prophecy and the arts.

What is Apollo (Trojans)

200

I stayed neutral. I am the ruler of ALL gods.

What is Zeus?

300

I am the goddess of wisdom and strategy. I gave Achilles and Odysseus ideas to help them defeat their enemy.

What is Athena (Greeks)

400

I am the goddess of love. I believe Helen and Paris should be together.

What is Aphrodite (Trojans)

500

I am the messenger god. I helped guide King Priam to talk to Achilles.

What is Hermes (Trojans)