The Iliad

1. The Iliad Review Game

2. Question 1 – Group 1 • What are the first 8 lines of an epic poem called?

3. proem

4. Question 1 – Group 2 • This immortal stops Achilles from killing Agamemnon.

5. Athena

6. Question 1 – Group 3 • What is the name for the descriptive phrases that regularly accompany character names

7. Epithets

8. Question 1 – Group 4 • This immortal saves Paris.

9. Aphrodite

10. Question 2 – Group 1 • This character, who has an aristeia in book 5, serves as a sort of replacement Achilles.

11. Diomedes

12. Question 2 – Group 2 • This is the name of Hector’s child.

13. Astynax

14. Question 2 – Group 3 • Aside from Aphrodite, Diomedes also wounds this immortal.

15. Ares

16. Question 2 – Group 4 • When the embassy approaches Achilles, he is rocking out on the lyre and singing a song about this.

17. War/Battle/Glory

18. Question 3 – Group 1 • The Greek Healer, Machaon, is wounded by this character.

19. Paris

20. Question 3 – Group 2 • Who gives Patroclus the idea of wearing Achilles’ armor?

21. Nestor

22. Question 3 – Group 3 • This character has many epithets. One epithet likens him to the river while another refers to him as “man-killing”

23. Hector

24. Question 3 – Group 4 • While Zeus is asleep, this character is able to knock out Hector

25. Ajax

26. Question 4 – Group 1 • Zeus, overwhelmed by his desire for Hera, chooses this tactic to woo his wife.

27. He lists all of the women he previously had affairs with.

28. Question 4 – Group 2 • Zeus sends this immortal to tell Poseidon that he should withdraw from the battle.

29. Iris

30. Question 4 – Group 3 • This character talks to horses.

31. Achilles

32. Question 4 – Group 4 • This is the name of Priam’s wife.

33. Hecuba

34. Question 5 – Group 1 • Which god makes Achilles’ new armor?

35. Hephaestus

36. Question 5 – Group 2 • Which character first injures Patroclus AND is later murdered by Menelaus?

37. Euphorbus

38. Question 5 – Group 3 • Which god/goddess fools Hector when he’s running around the city walls, which leads to his death?

39. Athena.

40. Question 5 – Group 4 • Who AND what does Achilles use as a sacrifice for Patroclus’ funeral pyre?

41. 12 Trojans, dead dogs, slaughtered bulls, etc.

42. Question 6 – Group 1 “Bury me, quickly – let me pass to the gates of Hades. They hold me off at a distance, all the souls, the shades of the burnt-out, breathless dead, never to let me cross the river, mingle with them…They leave me to wander up and down, abandoned, lost at the House of Death with the all-embracing gates.”

43. Pat

44. Question 6 – Group 2 • 'Ah me, my child, your birth was bitterness. Why did I raise you? If only you could sit by your ships untroubled, not weeping,since indeed your lifetime is to be short, of no length. Now it has befallen that your life must be brief and bitter beyond all men's. To a bad destiny I bore you in my chambers.'

45. Thetis

46. Question 6 – Group 3 • 'Poor ____________Why does your heart sorrow so much for me?No man is going to hurl me to Hades, unless it is fated,but as for fate, I think no man has yet escaped itonce it has taken its first form, neither brave man nor coward.'

47. Hector

48. Question 6 – Group 4 • 'Ah me, that it is destined that the dearest of men, Sarpedon, must go down under the hands of Menoitios' son Patroklos. The heart in my breast is balanced between two ways as I ponder, whether I should snatch him out of the sorrowful battleand set him down still alive in the rich country of Lykia, or beat him under at the hands of the son of Menoitios.'

49. Zeus

50. Question 7 – Group 1 • I carry two sorts of destiny toward the day my death. Either, if I stay here and fight beside the city of Trojans, my return home is gone, but my glory shall be everlasting;but if I return home to the beloved land of my fathers, the excellence of my glory is gone, but there will be a long life left for me, and my end in death will not come to me quickly.'