Book 4 - Menelaus and Helen

Question 1

Bk 4
Menelaus - Values - Quotes (3) 🤡🕊️

Answer 1

“Eteoneus… you have not always been a fool…”
“bathed in polished baths…”
“helping them liberally to all she could offer”

Question 2

Bk 4
Odysseus - Characterisation - Quotes (2) 🪨

Answer 2

“…it was Odysseus who strove the hardest and achieved the most.”
“I suppose you never listened…when… your fathers told you how Odysseus’ treated them”

Question 3

Bk 4
Telemachus - Characterisation - Quotes (2)

Answer 3

“You talk such good sense, you’re the true son of your father.”
“a child like him - untrained for action or debate”

Question 4

Bk 4
Helen - Gods - Quotes (1) 👁️

Answer 4

“repenting the blindness Aphrodite sent me…”

Question 5

Bk 4
Odysseus - Deception & Disguise - Quotes (1)

Answer 5

“He disfigured himself… looking like a slave…”

Question 6

Bk 4
Menelaus - Fate, Prophecy, Omen - Gods - Quotes (1)

Answer 6

“it is not your fate to die in Argos… this is because you are son-in-law to Zeus.”

Question 6

Bk 4
Suitors - Characterisation - Quotes (2)

Answer 6

“as if a deer had put her… fawns to sleep in a mighty lion’s den”
“the others welcomed the scheme and told him to carry it out”

Question 7

Bk 4
General - Slave - Quotes (2)

Answer 7

“it was Medon, the herald, who let her know.”
“whether you kill me…. or let me live… I knew the whole thing.”

Question 8

Bk 4
Suitors - Fate, Prophecy, Omen - Quotes (1)

Answer 8

“…it was they who had little guessed what had been arranged.”

Question 9

Bk 4
Telemachus - Fate, Prophecy, Omen - Quotes (1)

Answer 9

“it is settled that your son shall come home safe.”

Question 10

Bk 4
Athene - Characterisation - Quotes (1)

Answer 10

“The goddess made a phantom [Iphthime] to save the unhappy and weeping Queen.”