- — New Characters
- — Character Development
- — Note New Vocabulary Words- look up definitions
- — Major Plots Developments
- — Examples of Literary Techniques
- — Your Interpretation of Passages
- — Interesting Quotes or passages
1. According to the first 8 lines, what will this poem be about?
2. What do you think the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles is about? Compare / contrast to the "quarrel" that started the war. Do gods or men or both cause the quarrel?
3. What accusations do Achilles and Agamemnon level at each other? Do you think these charges are just?
4. Who do you think is in the right in this quarrel? Who do the Achaeans think is in the right? Why? Why do you think Achilles and Agamemnon fail to take Nestor’s advice?
5. What kind of people do you think Agamemnon and Achilles are?
6. How do men get gods to do what men want?
7. Name some similarities between Zeus and Achilles (and Zeus and Agamemnon).
8. How do you react to the way women (mortal and immortal) portrayed in Book 1?
9. What do you think the heroes in the Iliad are fighting for? Do the heroes seem to like fighting? What do the gods seem to care about? How are their concerns like / unlike the heroes' concern for honor and glory?
10. In what ways do you think the men's and gods' quarrels are like / unlike? Why do you think these quarrels have different outcomes?
11. In what ways is Thersites different from the other Achaeans? Do you think he had a point? If so, what is the function of including this incident?
12.Who restores order?
13. At the end of Book Two there are two catalogs of heroes for each side. What is the function of this in the poem?
14. Are any of the themes mentioned in class present in this section? If so which and how?
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