Can you name the characters in the Iliad from their epithets?

created by AdamBishop
  • Enter an epithet in the box below
  • Correctly named epithets will show up below
  • Click any empty Epithet or Character to answer for that location
  • Source: Epithets in Homer
  • See also the Iliad, http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html
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EpithetCharacter
sweet-spoken, Gerenian horseman
gigantic, swift
great-hearted, noble
Phoebus, of the silver bow
old, Dardanian
swift-footed, lion-hearted
Argive, fair-haired
Tydides, tamer of horses
red-haired, spear-famed
earth-shaking, earth-encircling
EpithetCharacter
silver-footed
rosy-fingered
ox-eyed, white-armed
violent, manslaughtering
grey-eyed, driver of the spoil
Alexandros, woman-mad
wide-ruling, lord of men
wide-seeing, cloud-gathering
resourceful, sacker of cities
laughter-loving, golden
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Epithets in the Iliad Quiz

  1. by AdamBishop
  • Created Nov 5, 2010 in Literature
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