The Iliad - Character Quiz

Can you identify these characters from Homer's Illiad?
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Last updated: March 28, 2026
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Character
The most beautiful woman in the world; seduced to leave her husband by a prince of Troy
Helen
The prince and greatest warrior of Troy
Hector
Clever king of Ithaca; the mastermind behind the Trojan Horse
Odysseus
The greatest warrior of the Greeks; killed with an arrow to the heel
Achilles
Greek warrior; best friend and potentially the lover of #4
Patroclus
The prince of Troy who is responsible for seducing the king of Sparta's wife and inciting the war
Paris
The elderly king of Troy
Priam
The king of Mycenae and leader of the Greek expedition to Troy
Agamemnon
The king of Sparta who loses his wife to a prince of Troy
Menelaus
The tallest and second greatest warrior of the Greeks; prince of Salamis
Ajax the Great
Trojan warrior who, according to Virgil's famous epic, is an ancestor of the Romans
Aeneas
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4 Comments
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Level 95
Mar 28, 2026
Patroclus was an associate of Achilles, so #4 surely?
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Level 65
Mar 28, 2026
Whoops! Good catch, fixed!
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Level 67
Apr 6, 2026
Nice quiz! Missed a couple I should have got
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Level 65
Apr 6, 2026
I'm glad you liked it!