Quiz 5 Flashcards
(11 cards)
What is the poem’s first word in Greek?
What does it mean?
Why is it applied to Achilles?
How is it appropriate?
menis
divine wrath
He’s part god and close to superhuman (almost divine) so its a mark on who he is.
What is the name of the priest who asks for his daughter back from Agamemnon?
Chryses
What happens to the Argive army as a result of Agamemnon’s refusal to accept the priest’s wishes?
Apollo sends a plaque
What do Achilles and Agamemnon quarrel over in Book 1? What is the result?
How does this contrast from the quarrel of Zeus and Hera?
What do we learn from these quarrels?
Agamemnon takes Achilles’s prize (Briseis) and disgraces him. Achilles curses Argive army to lose to Trojans so that they will want him back but he turns down Agamemnon’s offer of gifts and reconciliation.
Zeus asserts his dominance like Agamemnon tries to and Hera is silenced. Zeus is able to lead and silence all opposition within one book. We see the male dominance over women where as Ag and Ach we see male male.
Hector is the son of who? His father leads who? What’s the names of his wife and son?
Priam and Hecuba
King of Troy
Wife Andromache, son Astyanax
Who is Helen’s parents?
What town is she from?
Two husbands names?
Zeus and Leda
Laconia
Menelaus and Paris/Alexander
Where does Hector meet his wife Andromache in Book 6? What is she doing and advice does she give him? What does Hector do to stop their son, Astyanax, from crying? what does this gesture from Hector mean at this point in the poem?
Troy
Nursing their son. He begs him to not fight
He takes off his helmet and kisses his son.
Split nature of Hector. The hero side wants to fight but he will die, but he has loyalties to his family.
Name the three warriors who go to the embassy to Achilles in Book 9. What is Achilles’ response after each speaker.
Patroclus, Odysseus, Ajax
P: I’m leaving
O: I’ll stay the night and think about it in morning
A: I’ll stay but not fight, leaving if Hector gets here.
What happens to the armor of Achilles after Patroclus dies in battle? Who asks for a new set of armor for Achilles? Who makes Achilles this new armor?
Hector strips and wears it. Sends his armor back to Troy.
His mother Thetis
Hephaestus
Three times and a fourth equals
Failure
What hero has the first aristeia in the Iliad? What is the name of the Trojan ally that he meets
but does not fight? Why does he not fight this Trojan warrior? What is the name of this
custom?
Diomedes Book 5
Glaucus
They tell each other their stories which they find out that they shared common grandparents (Belefont) that use to host each other (communal)
xenia
