World of the Hero: Homer’s Iliad

Question 1

What must be done before the duel between Menelaus and Paris can take place?

Question 2

2. Who is the messenger who calls Helen to witness the duel?

Answer 2

Iris

Question 3

3. What is Helen doing when the messenger arrives?

Question 4

4. How does Helen describe herself to Priam?

Answer 4

Slut I am

Question 5

5. What does Priam ask Helen to do for him?

Answer 5

Descibe the differnt soldiers

Question 6

6. What weapons do Paris and Menelaus use to fight?

Question 7

7. Who rescues Paris form the duel?

Answer 7

Aphrodite

Question 8

8. How does Helen react to Paris’ rescue?

Answer 8

Calls him a coward

Question 9

9. What is the last thing that happens in Book 3?

Answer 9

Agamemnon shouting how Menelaus has won

Question 10

Menelaus captures Adrestos alive. Adrestos begs for his life and Menelaus is about to spare
him, what makes him change his mind?

Answer 10

Agamemnon convinces him to kill Adrestos

Question 11

2. Who advises Hector to go back to the city?

Question 12

3.Why?

Question 13

4. Which two warriors meet on the battlefield and discuss their lineage?

Question 14

5. Why is it said that ‘Zeus stole away the wits of Glaukos’?

Question 15

6. What is the very first thing that happens when Hector gets to the Skaian gates?

Question 16

7. What is the name of Hector’s mother?

Question 17

8. What two reasons does Hector give for refusing his mother’s offer of wine? (half a mark
   each)

Question 18

9. What do the Trojan women offer to Athene?

Question 19

10. What is Athene’s response?

Question 20

11. What is Paris doing when Hector finds him?

Question 21

12. Where is Andromache?

Question 22

13. Who killed her family?

Question 23

14. What surprising advice does she give Hector? (surprising for a woman at least!)

Question 24

15. Why does Astyanax cry?

Question 25

16. What is Paris compared to as he runs through the city towards the battlefield?

Question 26

1. Who wept tears ‘like a dark spring trickling black streaks of water down a steep rock-face’?

Question 27

2. What is the name of Nestor’s son?

Question 28

3. Name three gifts that Agamemnon had in mind to grant Achilles

Question 29

4. Who was sitting with Achilles when the embassy arrived?

Question 30

5. Who did Ajax claim was running mad, in a ‘mad dog frenzy’?

Question 31

6. What does Achilles claim Zeus has done to Agamemnon?

Question 32

7. Why did Phoenix quarrel with his father?

Question 33

8. What advice does Phoenix give Achilles?

Question 34

9. What did Diomedes have to say to Agamemnon on the subject of Achilles upon his return?

Question 35

10. What is the last thing that happens in Book 9?

Question 36

1. Who is the first to volunteer for the spy mission into the Trojan camp?

Question 37

2. Who does he choose to go with him, and why?

Question 38

3. What do the Achaians hope to gain by the mission?

Question 39

4. Who is sent on a similar mission for the Trojans?

Question 40

5. What are his motivations?

Question 41

6. Who catches whom spying?

Question 42

7. What do they learn?

Question 43

8. Which unit of Trojan fighters are Diomedes and Odysseus most interested in?

Question 44

9. What becomes of Dolon?

Question 45

10. Who is later killed and what is taken?