What guides the actions of mortal characters in The Iliad?
Fate/ whims of the gods
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Who says: "What do you want? To keep your own prize and have me sit here lacking one? Are you ordering me to give this girl back?"
Agamemnon
100
Sends a plague down upon the Greeks/Achaeans
Apollo
100
How do most epics begin?
In medias res/ with an invocation of the muses
200
The war prize of Agamemnon
Chryseis
200
What does Hektor ask of Achilleus before he dies?
To return his body to the Trojans for a proper burial
200
Who says: "Hektor, thus you are father to me, and my honored mother, you are my brother, and you it is who are my young husband."
Andromache
200
Who stops Achilleus from killing Agamemnon
Athene
200
What role do gods play in the lives of mortals?
They act as intervening forces.
300
Who is the self-pitying foil of Hektor?
Paris
300
What do the images on Achilleus's shield represent?
All of humanity
300
Who says: "Then I must lose you soon, my child, by what you are saying, since it is decreed your death must come soon after Hektor's."
Thetis
300
Why does Athene help Achilleus to defeat Hektor?
She favors the Greeks because she was slighted by Paris of Troy.
300
What two cities fought against one another during the Peloponnesian War?
Athens and Sparta
400
Accompanies Chryseis back home on a ship
Odysseus
400
In Book VI, what two things must Hektor decide between?
Family and Duty
400
Who says: "I will not bury you till I bring to this place the armor and the head of Hektor, since he was your great-hearted murderer."
Achilleus
400
Makes armor and a shield for Achilleus at the request of Thetis
Hephaestus
400
What is the name of the time period where democracy flourished and Athenians were encouraged to "develop individually while maintaining steadfast devotion to the community?"
The Golden Age
500
Who does Hektor ask for a long spear during his battle with Achilleus?
Deiphobos/ Athene
500
How is the Iliad resolved? In other words, what finally subsides?
The anger of Achilleus
500
To what is this quote referring: "As in a dream a man is not able to follow one who runs from him, nor can the runner escape, nor the other pursue him, so he could not run him down in his speed, nor the other get clear."
Hektor's dream
500
Which god/goddess begins the Trojan war by creating discord during the marriage of Peleus and Thetis?
Eris
500
What did Homer choose to focus on when writing down the history of the Trojan war?
Human choices and emotions instead of just historical fact