The Iliad Test

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Troy is famous for the

Scaen Gates

King of Troy

Priam

Queen of Troy

Hecuba

Prince of Troy

Hector

Little Sister

Cassandra

Little Brother

Paris

The Bride and Groom of the most important wedding

Thetis and Peleus

Goddess of conflict who didn’t get an invite

Eris

Fruit for the “fairest”

golden apple

Three Godesses who want the apple

Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite

Mountain Paris is sent to because he is a “Lady’s Man”

Mount Ida

Paris’ first wife

Oenone

What Athena offers Paris

wisdom and skill in battle, making him a great warrior.

What Hera offers Paris

power and kingship over all of Asia and Europe.

What Aphrodite offers Paris

The most beautiful women in the world

What the event where Paris chooses who the fairest of the three goddesses are is called

Judgement of Paris

What Hera and Athena say they will do

Burn Troy to the ground

Where Aphrodite takes Paris

Sparta

Lowest cheif of Sparta

Tyndareus

Tyndareus’ wife

Leda, mother of Helen

Helen’s Father

Zeus

The oath Tyndareus makes the 50 men sign

That they will protect Menelaus and Helen no matter what

Higher chief of Sparta and Helen’s husband

Menelaus

Why Paris is allowed to stay with Menelaus and Hector for 3 days

Hospitality

Highest chief of Sparta and the one that will lead the war

Agamemnon

Why Agamemnon agrees to the war

Money

He goes around gathering warriors

Odysseus

Two warriors he gets

Diomedes and Ajax

Helen’s face is the face that:

Launched 1000 ships

Land where Thetis and Peleus live

Phthia

How many miscarries did Thetis have

Six miscarriages (7th was Achilles who made it)

Achilles’ best friend

Patroclus

Achilles’ group

Myrmidons

Achilles’ prophecy

If he stays, he lives and has a nice, long life

If he leaves, he dies a young death but is remembered for thousands of years

Priam’s quote about war

“Men go to war for money, power, and land. We’re going for beauty, and its no better or worse”

Where Odysseus goes in Greece where he hears rumors of Achilles and where the spartans are

Aulis

What Achilles hides as

A wash girl

How does Odysseus get Achilles to show himself

He gets a basket full of trinkets and all the girls grab girly things but Achilles grabs a knife

Goddess who curses the greeks because Agamenon shoots her deer

Artemis

How Artemis curses them

With no wind

Who tells the greeks they have to sacrifice something

Calchas

Agamemnons daughter he kills for wind

Iphigenia

The river the greeks go to troy on

Simois River

Who tells the greeks that the first one to get off the ship will die

Calchas

Who gets off the greek ship first

Protesilaus

The gift the gods give to Protesilaus

To stay home with his wife, Laodamia, for 24 hours and they allow them both to enter the afterlife

Protesilaus’ wife

Laodamia

How many years go by after the war begins

Nine Years

The Greeks advantages

More and better Warriors

Achilles

Hera and Athena

the Trojans advantages

Better leaders

Home field advantage

Hector

They actually have something to lose

Girl Agamemnon finds and makes his concubine (sex slave)

Chriseis

Chiseis is a priestess to this god

Apollo

Punishment Apollo sends

Plauge of Arrows

Achilles’ solution to the Plauge of Arrows

Give Chriseis back

Agamemnon’s solution with Achilles

He gives Chriseis back, but he takes Briseis to be his concubine

Achilles’ response to having his girl taken, which is not to fight

Wrath of Achilles

Where Zeus stands in the war

Neutral (but not rlly because of his wife Hera)

Hera’s side in the war

Greek (Paris (trojan) pissed her off)

Athena side in the war

Greek (Paris (trojan) pissed her off)

Aphrodite side in the war

Trojan (because she got the apple)

Apollo’s side

Trojan (Because Chriseis was taken)

Poseidon’s side

Greek (Because the Greek’s are sea people)

Ares’ side

Trojan (because of Aphrodite which is his gf)

Artemis’ side

Trojan (because Agamemnon shot her deer)

Hephaestus’ side

Neutral (because he supplies weapons)

Hades

Neutral (because of all of the death and destruction)

The dream Agamemnon gets

“In the morning go conquer”

The god who sent Agamemnon this false dream

Zeus

Why Zeus sends the dream

Thetis (so that the Greeks lose and Achilles lives)

What Menelaus proposes to both sides

A one on one with him and Paris

The advice Hector gives to Paris

“Do not drop your weapons; let him get tired.”

What Paris immediately does when fighting Menelaus

Drops his weapons

What Menelaus says to Helen as he’s beating the life out of Paris

“IS THIS WHAT YOU LEFT ME FOR?”

Goddess who saves Paris by loosening his chinstraps so he goes flying

Aphrodite

Goddess who stops the truce by whispering in a warriors ear to throw a spear

Hera

Soldier who throws the spear at Menelaus

Pandoraus

Who the Trojans send to fight after the truce is off

Aneus (Aphrodite’s son)

Who the Greeks send to fight after the truce is off

Diomedes

Where Aphrodite takes Aneus to heal after Diomedes wounds him

Pergamos

Goddess who coaches Diomedes in all his fights

Athena

How Diomedes wounds Athena

Cuts her arm

God who gets wounded in the arm by Diomedes

Ares

Why Zeus isn’t stepping in after watching his gods get hurt

He fears that the prophecy might come through and he will be dethroned

What Patroclus takes to go fight the Trojans

Achilles’ armor

The reaction to “Achilles” (Patroclus) coming out

The Myrmidons are happy, the greeks are happy, the Trojans are not happy at all

How Hector kills Patroclus (pretending to be Achilles)

Impales him

How everyone finds out “Achilles” is really Patroclus

Hector takes his helmet off for a trophy

How the Greeks tell Achilles that Patroclus is dead

They draw lots and tell him

The type of anger Achilles feels after learning that Patroclus is dead

Silent Anger

What Achilles whispers three times in his tent

hector (3x)

What Achilles yells three times on the battlefield

HECTOR (3x)

Hector’s wife

Andromeche

Hectors son

Astayanax

How Andromeche tries to convice Hector to stay

Make him hold his son and tells Hector to not make him an orphan

Last thing Hector says to Astayanax

Become a better man than him

The agreement Hector tries to make with Achilles

A covenant

What is the covenant Hector tries to make with Achilles?

To give whoever dies a proper burial

What Achilles says to Hector after he tries to make a covenant

“There are no pacts between wolves and sheep”

Minor god that is there because of Hector’s fear

Phobus (god of fear/phobia)

Why Hector being scared is important

Homer is showing that fear is apart of war