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Name

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A Dream, A testing and the catalog of ships

2
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The unstable position

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Agamemnon tests the men mentioning their homeland

The Greeks rush for the ships

3
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Why Agamemnon tests the men

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It is unclear

perhaps shows bad leadership

4
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Odysseus

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Odysseus’s grasp of the situation and quick wit is important

Although Athene asks him to use his eloquence he was chosen by her and acting of his own will

5
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the point of the catalog of ships

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widens the scale of the poem, includes the whole Mediterranean world

6
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Homer calls on the muses

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“Now you tell, me, Muse, of all the men and horses that crossed with Agamemnon and Menelaus, which were by far the best”

7
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The Dream

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Zeus had sent a dream to Agamemnon convincing him the Greeks could win and it was time to take Troy, this was in order to fulfill his promise to Thetis

8
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Zeus changes Agamemnon’s appearance

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to a “bull that clearly stands out”

“with head and eyes like those of Zeus”

9
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Athene supports the Greeks

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“with them went grey eyed Athene….filling the heart of every Greek with courage”