Quiz 6 Flashcards
(11 cards)
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
Name two scenes from the shield of Achilles. What do all the scenes on the shield as a
whole represent? What does it mean that Achilles is going to lift up this shield, with all these
images on it, and enter battle with it?
One scene depicts a city with weddings in brides that must go to trial when they disagree on the price for a kinsman. Another scene depicts a city encircled by an army that is debating whether to plunder them or share their riches with them.
The shield represents the world and life as the Achaeans know it.
It means he is accepting that when he goes into battle and kills Hector, he will never be able to experience this life ever again.
Name three women who sing a lament for Hector at the end of Iliad 24.
Andromache, Hecuba, Helen
Priam’s trip to Achilles’ hut mirrors a katabasis (a descent to Hades). List three details from that scene which support this statement.
1) Priam and Achilles both mourn for the dead (Priam mourning Hector and Achilles mourning his father and Patroclus)
2) Achilles orders servants to prepare and wrap body of Hector
3) Achilles points out that Niobe’s 12 children all died because they were so sad they couldn’t eat (Hades eats clay and dust)
What is the significance of X did Y three times, but on the fourth X ______? In other
words, what does this expression mean?
3 times and then a fourth means FAILURE
What is another moment when the number three is significant in the poem? Hint, hint: it’s in
Book 22. What does it represent?
Hector runs three times around the walls of Troy. This represents their eminent fall.
The veil that falls off the heads of Hecuba and Andromache at the end of Book 22 are
symbolic of what two things? Remember that the word for veil in Greek is also the same
word used of city walls
It is symbolic for the fall of Hector and the fall of Troy’s walls
What two things can Achilles’ name signify?
a source of grief to the army
the army a source of grief to him
What two things does Odysseus’ name mean?
I cause pain
Pain I suffer
What are the first four books of the Odyssey called?
The Telemachy
What does nostos mean? What does atasthalia mean and who is regularly associated with this
word in the poem? What does xenia mean and what characters at the beginning of the poem
violate it regularly?
returning home from war, being back home, escaping death, safe landings
recklessness/folly: Odysseus
xenia is the idea of hospitality. The suitors violate it.
