Iliad Characters Quiz

Guess the names of these characters from Homer's Iliad. Does include the Olympian Gods.

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Hint	Answer
The main Greek hero; has a vulnerable heel	Achilles
Best friend/lover of person above; a powerful warrior	Patroclus
Leader of the Greek army; sacrifices his own daughter to get to Troy	Agamemnon
Brother of the above; king of Sparta through marriage to the below	Menelaus
Most beautiful woman in the world; kidnapped by a Trojan prince	Helen
Trojan prince who kidnaps the above	Paris
Troy's best warrior; eldest son of the king of Troy	Hector
Smartest of the Greeks; came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse	Odysseus
Powerful Greek warrior who wounds the gods Ares and Aphrodite	Diomedes
Wife of Hector; is sold into slavery after the sack of Troy	Andromache
Queen of Asia Minor taken as a war prize; the cause of the quarrel in book 1	Briseis
Daughter of a priest taken captive but returned in Book 1	Chryseis
Father of the above; priest of Apollo	Chryses
Leader of the Dardarian contingent; son of Aphrodite and Anchises	Aeneas
Large and powerful Greek warrior; think dish soap	Ajax (The Greater)
Commander of the Lycian contingent; son of Zeus	Sarpedon

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Greece's top archer; son of Telamon	Teucer
Young son of Hector and Andromache; killed by either Odysseus or Neoptolemus during the sack of Troy	Astyanax
King of Troy; father of Paris, Hector, Cassandra etc.	Priam
Trojan seer who was cursed by Apollo to never be believed	Cassandra
Mother of Achilles; a minor sea goddess	Thetis
Powerful God of fire and blacksmiths; forges a famous shield for Achilles	Hephaestus
King of the Gods; supposed to stay neutral but helps the Trojans	Zeus
Queen of the Gods; supported the Greeks after Paris dishonoured her	Hera
Goddess of wisdom and battle strategy; supported the Greeks after Paris dishonoured her	Athena
God of the Seas who supported the Greeks; later becomes the enemy of Odysseus	Poseidon
God of War; supports the Trojans but ends up wounded and goes crying to Zeus	Ares
Goddess of love and beauty; supports the Trojans because Paris deemed her to be the fairest goddess	Aphrodite
Goddess of the rainbow who acts as Zeus' messenger	Iris
God of light, music, poetry etc.; main Trojan supporter	Apollo
River God who tries to drown Achilles; set on fire by Hephaestus	Scamander
Queen of Troy; mother of Hector, Paris etc.	Hecuba