The Iliad

The IliadReview Game

Question 1 – Group 1 What are the first 8 lines of an epic

poem called?

proem

Question 1 – Group 2 This immortal stops Achilles from killing

Agamemnon.

Athena

Question 1 – Group 3 What is the name for the descriptive

phrases that regularly accompany character names

Epithets

Question 1 – Group 4 This immortal saves Paris.

Aphrodite

Question 2 – Group 1 This character, who has an aristeia in

book 5, serves as a sort of replacement Achilles.

Diomedes

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

Astynax

Question 2 – Group 3 Aside from Aphrodite, Diomedes also

wounds this immortal.

Ares

Question 2 – Group 4 When the embassy approaches Achilles,

he is rocking out on the lyre and singing a song about this.

War/Battle/Glory

Question 3 – Group 1 The Greek Healer, Machaon, is wounded

by this character.

Paris

Question 3 – Group 2 Who gives Patroclus the idea of wearing

Achilles’ armor?

Nestor

Question 3 – Group 3 This character has many epithets. One

epithet likens him to the river while another refers to him as “man-killing”

Hector

Question 3 – Group 4 While Zeus is asleep, this character is

able to knock out Hector

Ajax

Question 4 – Group 1 Zeus, overwhelmed by his desire for

Hera, chooses this tactic to woo his wife.

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

Question 4 – Group 2 Zeus sends this immortal to tell

Poseidon that he should withdraw from the battle.

Iris

Question 4 – Group 3 This character talks to horses.

Achilles

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

Hecuba

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

Hephaestus

Question 5 – Group 2 Which character first injures Patroclus

AND is later murdered by Menelaus?

Euphorbus

Question 5 – Group 3 Which god/goddess fools Hector when

he’s running around the city walls, which leads to his death?

Athena.

Question 5 – Group 4 Who AND what does Achilles use as a

sacrifice for Patroclus’ funeral pyre?

12 Trojans, dead dogs, slaughtered bulls, etc.

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.”

Pat

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.'

Thetis

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.'

Hector

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.'

Zeus

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.'

Achilles

Question 7 – Group 2 'High-hearted son of Tydeus, why ask of

my generation? As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while anotherdies'

Glaucus

Question 7 – Group 3 'Come then! After once more the flowing-

haired Achaians are gone back with their ships to the beloved land of their fathers,break their wall to pieces and scatter it into the salt sea and pile again the beach deep under the sands and cover it;so let the great wall of the Achaians go down to destruction.'

Zeus

Question 7 – Group 4 'Fate is the same for the man who holds

back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.'

Achilles

Question 8 – Group 1 ''Hera, there will be a time afterwards

when you can go there as well. But now let us go to bed and turn to love-making.For never before has love for any goddess or woman so melted about the heart inside me, broken it to submission,as now”

Zeus

Question 8 – Group 2 'Hector, you are too intractable to listen to

reason. Because the god has granted you the actions of warfare therefore you wish in counsel also to be wise beyond others. But you cannot choose to have all gifts given to you together. To one man the god has granted the actions of warfare, to one to be a dancer, to another the lyre and the singing, and in the breast of another Zeus of the wide brows establishes wisdom, a lordly thing, and many take profit beside him and he saves many, but the man's own thought surpasses all others.'

Polydamas

Question 8 – Group 3 'I have taken away the mist from your

eyes, that before now was there, so that you may well recognize the god and the mortal. Therefore now, if a god making trial of you comes hither do you not do battle head on with the gods immortal, not with the rest; but only if Aphrodite, Zeus' daughter, comes to the fighting, her at least you may stab with the sharp bronze.'

Athena

Question 8 – Group 4 'Father Zeus, is there any mortal left on the

wide earth who will still declare to the immortals his mind and his purpose? Do you not see how now these flowing-haired Achaians have built a wall landward of their ships, and driven about it a ditch, and not given to the gods any grand sacrifice? Now the fame of this will last as long as dawnlight is scattered, and men will forget that wall which I and Phoibos Apollo built with our hard work for the hero Laomedon's city.'

Poseidon

Question 9 – Group 1 “First he wrapped his legs with the well-

made greaves, fastened behind the heels with silver ankle-clasps, next he strapped the breastplate round his chest, blazoned with stars – swift Achilles’ own – then over his shoulder Patroclus slung the sword…”

Question 9 – Group 2 “But I am willing to give her back, even

so, if that is best for all. What I really want is to keep my people safe, not see them dying. But fetch me another prize, and straight off too, else I alone of the Argives go without my honor

Question 9 – Group 3 “If I voyage back to the fatherland I

love, my pride, my glory dies…true, but the life that’s left me will be long, the stroke of death will not come on me quickly”

Question 9 – Group 4 “Hephaestus the Master Craftsman rose up

first to harangue them all, trying now to bring his loving mother a little comfort, the white-armed goddess Hera: ‘Oh disaster . . . that’s what it is, and it will be unbearable if the two of you must come to blows this way, flinging the gods in chaos just for mortal men. No more joy for us in the sumptuous feast when riot rules the day’”