This quiz is based by original research. I used this text as a source, but converted the names from Roman back to Greek. There are some complications. For example, Paris is mentioned as both Paris as Alexandrus. There are probably other similar things that I missed, so this should be considered a starting point for more research.
Having just read the Iliad, I think it would be more "correct" if the description only referred to the content of the Iliad - so Odysseus, Aeneas and Paris would have to be changed
Nice quiz. I'm halfway through The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller right now so I probably did better than I would have a couple weeks ago. Still missed 4 though.
I had to read this back in 7th grade. Crazy that I've forgotten all but the largest details since then. 14/30, though I do recognize almost all the ones I missed.
No Hecuba?!? (What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba...?) No Clytemnestra? No Cassandra? Even Helen comes in dead last (after all the dudes and goddesses), and she was the very reason for all the brouhaha! C'mon, Homer!
Just one thing: saying Achilles and Patroclus were "best friends" is a huge understatement and makes no sense at all. I think "Lovers" is more accurate and better reflects the following rage of Achilles. Which is also foreshadowed when Achilles captured lady is taken away, he makes a big deal of that.
You are right, Greek stories are not heterocentric, but these two are not actually shown as lovers here in the Iliad.
I re-read it a few years ago, and couldn't find any references to it. It may have been because of the translation of course, but I don't think so. They are cousins and best friends here, and there may or may not be more between them, but it's not mentioned.
The book (a play) in which they are definitely lovers was written by Euripides.
By the way, when Briseis is taken away, and Achilleus is enraged, it's not because he loves her so much. It's because she is his slave, his property given to him by military right. He'd be just as enraged if he had a beautiful horse taken from him. Yes, that's hysterics. :) The heroes of the Iliad are pretty childish in general.
I actually knew quite a few of these not from reading the Iliad, but from the Troy trilogy of novels by David Gemmell. He made the legend a lot more... accessible to me, by removing much of the supernatural stuff and making it seem more real. Definitely recommend.
I said this to myself, "Oh, heck, what is the name of the leader of Troy?" I didn't realize I'd said half his name. I finally gave up trying to remember.
Just one thing: saying Achilles and Patroclus were "best friends" is a huge understatement and makes no sense at all. I think "Lovers" is more accurate and better reflects the following rage of Achilles. Which is also foreshadowed when Achilles captured lady is taken away, he makes a big deal of that.
Greek wars had no place for Heterocentric views.
I re-read it a few years ago, and couldn't find any references to it. It may have been because of the translation of course, but I don't think so. They are cousins and best friends here, and there may or may not be more between them, but it's not mentioned.
The book (a play) in which they are definitely lovers was written by Euripides.
By the way, when Briseis is taken away, and Achilleus is enraged, it's not because he loves her so much. It's because she is his slave, his property given to him by military right. He'd be just as enraged if he had a beautiful horse taken from him. Yes, that's hysterics. :) The heroes of the Iliad are pretty childish in general.
Come on! Why are these greek-themed quizzes so difficult for a greek?
Please accept Pileas or Pilefs or Pileus!