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| According to tradition, he was blind. | Homer |
| He wrote about the events that occur during and after the Trojan War in the Iliad and Odyssey. | Homer |
| He is a major character in the Iliad and the hero of the Odyssey | Odysseus |
| He was the King of Ithaca and a brave and cunning hero in Greek mythology. | Odysseus |
| The ancient Greeks buried their dead with a coin in their mouth as payment to him for the trip across the River Styx. | Charon |
| He was killed by Achilles. | Hector |
| His name was Ulysses in Latin. | Odysseus |
| His wife was Hecuba. | Priam |
| Most of the stories about him tell about his life during and after the Trojan War. | Odysseus |
| She has been portrayed as a deceitful woman driven by passion to betray her country and family, while other writers have regarded her as an innocent victim of her own beauty. | Helen of Troy |
| The Greeks honored him by giving him the armor of Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior, after Achilles’ death. | Odysseus |
| He angered the god Apollo because he refused to return the captured maiden Chryseis to her father, a priest of Apollo. | Agamemnon |
| He visited the land of Cyclopes (one-eyed giants). He was captured by Polyphemus, a Cyclops. | Odysseus |
| She was the love interest of the Greek warrior Achilles. | Briseis |
| He is traditionally considered the ancient Greek poet who composed the great epics the Iliad and the Odyssey. | Homer |
| She was the most beautiful woman in the world in Greek mythology. | Helen of Troy |
| He was noted for his kindness, dignity, and respect for the gods. | Priam |
| He wore Achilles’ armor in battle and fought in his place. | Patroclus |
| She was the major cause of the Trojan War, in which Greece defeated the city of Troy. | Helen of Troy |
| She married Menelaus, the king of Sparta. | Helen of Troy |
| He was the last king of Troy and ruler of the city during the Trojan War with Greece. | Priam |
| Achilles pitied him and returned Hector’s body to him. | Priam |
| He led the Greek army that conquered Troy in the Trojan War in Greek mythology. | Agamemnon |
| He was the king of Mycenae. | Agamemnon |
| He killed the Greek hero Achilles with a bow and arrow. | Paris |
| He assembled the Greek forces at Aulis before sailing for Troy. | Agamemnon |
| He, aided by Apollo, killed Patroclus during the battle. | Hector |
| He was a king of Sparta. | Menelaus |
| He commanded the Myrmidons, very brave and skilled warriors. | Achilles |
| He was the ragged old boatman of the Underworld in Greek mythology. | Charon |
| He was the husband of Helen of Troy. | Menelaus |
| In anger, he refused to fight any longer and, without him, the Greek forces began to lose. | Achilles |
| He and his brother, Agamemnon, gathered an army and attacked Troy. | Menelaus |
| He was the greatest hero of the ancient city of Troy. | Hector |
| Soon after he was born, he was dipped in the River Styx, whose water would make him invulnerable. | Achilles |
| He was described as brave, handsome, and patriotic. He also was a good leader and a loving husband. | Hector |
| He returned to the battlefield to seek revenge for the death of Patroclus. | Achilles |
| His sense of honor made him fight Achilles, even though he knew he would die. | Hector |
| He killed Hector and tied the corpse behind his chariot. He dragged Hector's body around the walls of Troy for several days. | Achilles |
| His mother, Hecuba, dreamed that her unborn son would cause the destruction of Troy. | Paris |
| His most famous sons were Hector and Paris. | Priam |
| He went alone at night to the tent of the Greek warrior Achilles to beg for Hector's body so he might give it a proper burial. | Priam |
| He fell in love with Helen, the beautiful wife of Menelaus, and took her to Troy. | Paris |
| When Troy fell, he fled with his father and his son Ascanius from the burning city. On nearby Mount Ida, he gathered the few other Trojan survivors and sailed away to found a new home. | Aeneas |
| He was a son of Priam and a younger brother of Hector. | Paris |
| He was a son of Priam and the older brother of Paris. | Hector |
| The Romans believed he was an ancestor of Romulus and Remus, the mythical founders of Rome. | Aeneas |
| He was celebrated by the Roman poet Virgil in the Aeneid, Rome's national epic. | Aeneas |
| He was the best Greek warrior in the Trojan War in Greek mythology. | Achilles |
| The immortalizing water of the River Styx did not touch the heel by which he was held. | Achilles |
| She was captured by Achilles as a prize of war. | Briseis |
| He donned his friend's armor and led his Myrmidons into battle. Aided by Zeus, he drove the Trojans to the city walls but was killed by Hector. | Patroclus |
| She was a source of conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon. | Briseis |
| A tendon at the back of the ankle comes from his legend. It is named for this Greek hero killed by an arrow in the heel. | Achilles |
| He was the intimate companion of Achilles, and some believe perhaps even his cousin. | Patroclus |
| He ferried the shades (spirits) of the dead across the Styx or other rivers of the Underworld. | Charon |
| He was a Trojan hero in Greek and Roman mythology. | Aeneas |
| When the Trojan War began, Agamemnon, sent soldiers to recruit him into the Greek army. | Achilles |
| During the last year of the war, he quarreled with Agamemnon, who took away Briseis, a young woman he had captured as a prize of war. | Achilles |
| He killed Patroclus during battle. | Hector |
| He killed Hector in revenge for the death of Patroclus. | Achilles |
| The idea of the Trojan horse originated with this man. | Odysseus |
| A Trojan prince named Paris visited Sparta and persuaded her to return to Troy with him. | Helen of Troy |
| He demanded the captive maiden Briseis from his rival, the warrior Achilles. | Agamemnon |
| She was the wife of Hector. | Andromache |
| He and other Greek warriors hid inside the Trojan horse while the rest of the Greek army sailed away. | Odysseus |
