Homework Due September 12th

Homework for the week

Read Excerpt from the Epic of Gilgamesh

Add outline information to notebook.

— 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

Write a 5 paragraph essay on the topic

"What does this passage from the Epic of Gilgamesh teach us about the ancient Mesopotamian beliefs about the gods and their effects on men? Compare this with what you have learned from the Iliad."

Read Iliad book 3 and 6

Add outline information to notebook.

• — 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

Answer 10 of the following questions. Respond in complete sentences.

1. What do you think Home intends to show the reader in the scenes dealing with Agamemnon's plan to test his troops and its result? (especially about the morals and character of Agamemnon)

2. What do you think the scepter/staff could symbolize?

3. Why do you suppose the people of Tray haven't just gotten rid of Paris and Helen?

4. Why do you think Menelaus agrees to truce and single combat?

5. Why does Hera want peace?

6. How do men get gods to do what men want? How is the presence of the gods important to the poem?

7. Who is Apollo and what is his role in the story?

8. Why and how does Pandarus break the truce? What is Homer's point in including this?

9. Compare Hector with Achilles, Agamemnon, and Paris. How does Homer feel about Hector?

10. Why does Hector fight on? Reconstruct his reasoning and analyze it.

11. What do you make of Homer's assessment of the Glaucon's judgement?

12.What is Helen's status and position among the Trojans? Consider both what others say about her and what she says about herself.

13. What does Menelaus say about Helen in the course of book III? How does this compare with what Paris says about her or to her?

14. What are the various classes and groups of Trojan women to whom are you introduced to in the course of book VI? Who are they? What do they do? What is their relationship to the men in the poem? What is the role and function as members of Trojan society?

Review Quizlets

Prepare for Notebook Check