The Iliad—Keeping it all Straight
Kirkpatrick—English 3
Character Matching: Match the following characters from Homer’s Iliad to the correct descriptions.
(Note: Some characters will correspond with more than one description.)
Achilles
Agamemnon
Ajax
Helen
Menelaus
Odysseus
Patroclus
Peleus
Astyanax
Andromache
Briseis
Chryseis
Chryses
Hector
Paris
Hecuba
Aphrodite
Apollo
Athena
Hera
Thetis
Zeus
Priam
Hermes
Cassandra
Deiphobus
_____________________ The Trojans’ greatest warrior
_____________________ The Queen of Troy
_____________________ Person whose actions started the Trojan War
_____________________ Andromache’s son
_____________________ The King of Troy
_____________________ Person who slays Hector
_____________________ God who often provides Hector with assistance
_____________________ The two goddesses who are on the Achaeans’ (Greeks’) side
_____________________
_____________________ Achilles’ mother
_____________________ Hector’s wife
_____________________
Helen’s original husband
_____________________ Priam’s three sons that figure into the plot of the Iliad
_____________________
_____________________
_____________________ Commander of the Achaean forces
_____________________ Apollo’s priest
_____________________ The two Trojan females who are taken as prizes by members of the Achaean forces
_____________________
______________________
The man who goes to Achilles to try to convince him to return Hector’s
body to the Trojans
_____________________
Person who takes Achilles’ “prize” (female) from him
_____________________
Achilles’ dearest friend—slain by a member of the Trojan army
______________________ King of the Gods
______________________
Zeus’ daughter
_____________________
Person who slays Patroclus
______________________ Goddess who often provides Achilles with assistance
______________________ Goddess who Paris chose as the “fairest”
______________________
Zeus’ wife
______________________
Person who finds out about Hector’s death when she hears the wailing of Hecuba
______________________ The two Achaeans who are sent by Agamemnon to try to convince Achilles
to return to battle
______________________
______________________
Sister of Hector
______________________ Hector’s brother who Athena takes the shape of
______________________ The god who puts a plague on the Achaean camp
______________________
The woman central to the cause of the Trojan War
______________________
Agamemnon’s brother
______________________
The two men who feast together in Book 24
______________________
______________________
The god who protects Priam on his journey to the Achaean camp
______________________
Achilles’ father
______________________
Daughter of Eetion
Fill in the Blanks:
1. Three other names for the Greek forces are the ______________________, the
______________________, and the ____________________________.
2. Two other names for the Trojan forces are the ______________________ and the
______________________.
3. The side that wins the Trojan War is the ______________________________________.