Song of Achilles

WARNING: This quiz contains some spoilers of the "The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller.

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The son of a mortal and a god, he must choose between a long life of obscurity or a short life of fame	Achilles
Exiled as a boy and Achille's lover, he is killed on the battlefield in his attempt to save the Greeks	Patroclus
A centaur, who trains the young boys in medicine and battle up on Mount Pelion	Chiron
A sea nymph, who is prophesied to bear a son that will be greater than his father	Thetis
The king of Phthia and the father of Achilles	Peleus
A beautiful Greek woman who triggers the battle for Troy after she is stolen (or willfully taken) from her husband	Helen
The princess of Scyros who discovers Achilles dressed as a girl, while he hides from war	Deidameia
The eldest prince of Troy; the man who must die before Achilles, according to prophecy	Hector

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The king of Mycenae and the commander of the Greek army at the battle of Troy	Agamemnon
A descendant of Zeus, he is the largest and second greatest warrior of the Greek army	Ajax
A woman, made captive by the Greeks in their raid against Troy and given as a war prize to Achilles	Briseis
The son of Achilles, known for his fiery red hair, who joins the battle for Troy	Pyrrhus
The prince of Ithaca and a chief war adviser in the battle for Troy	Odysseus
The man whose wife was stolen from him, who invokes the oath taken by all of his wife's suitors to rally troops and get her back	Menelaus
The man who kidnapped the woman that started the Trojan War; responsible for killing Achilles with his bow and arrow.	Paris

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Level 21

Nov 9, 2021

What about Neoptolemus for Pyrrhus?

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