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Homeric Character Conclusion (Posted on 2022-11-06) Difficulty: 3 of 5
341 452 was a famous Chinese Confucian scholar and philosopher in the Song dynasty during the middle ages.

All the following queries relate to Homeric characters which mainly appear in the Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey.

(A) WARM UP:
What is the character represented by:
(i) 49*97?
(ii> 86*55915?
(iii) 62809695?
(B)TOUGHER:
What is the character represented by:
(i) *97*4952*9*?
(ii) *9*25*415?
(iii) *76*80*349?
(iv) *0*4278015?
(v) 91*48**15?
(vi) 09**7*4215?
(vii) *7*2*83415?
(viii) 3*952**15?
(ix) *49*52*95?
(x) *8***49015?
*** Each asterisk denotes a letter, whether same or different.

No Solution Yet Submitted by K Sengupta    
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soln. Comment 1 of 1

Key:

MUICHSDNOE

0123456789


Getting the complete key did not guarantee for me getting all of the names. 


0 CHU HSI = Zhu Xi 


1 HELEN

2 ODYSSEUS

3 DIOMEDES


1 *ENHESI*E 

2 *E*IS*HUS

4 AMPHINOMUS

5 EUPHORBUS

6 MELANTHIUS

7 ANTILOCHUS

8 CTESIPPUS  

9 THERSITES  

10 POLYPHEMUS


For #1 and #2 above, I have put in the letters that were coded and then compared against the lists below, but to no avail. Did I overlook an answer? 


Iliad Cast


Odyssey Cast


Suitors of Penelope (Oh my. She had quite a few...)


Edited on November 8, 2022, 6:05 pm
  Posted by Steven Lord on 2022-11-06 15:26:19

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