Homework Due October 3rd 2011

Write a five paragraph essay comparing your heros with the Greek heros in the Illiad.

Read Iliad book 19 and 22

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. Compair the characters of Achilles and Patroclus in the story this far. How are they alike or different?

2. What is Homers view of anger? Why do you think he has that belief?

3. What is the importance of armor for the ancient Greek soldier? Describe the items included in the armor and their use and importance.

4. Why do you think we know this story as the Illiad instead of naming it after one of the main character? If you could choose a title what would it be?

5. How is fate defined in the epic? How does that differ from your view of the ideal epic?

6. Compare and contrast the appeals to Hector by Praim and Hecuba in the opening section of Book XXII. How do they differ and how are they similar?

7. How do the appeals to Hector by Priam and Hecuba help to characterize them and help you to understand them more?

8. How do the Greek gods behave differently from our own divinity?

9. Contrast Hector and Achilles. Which do you like better? Why?

10. Suppose the Greeks had become to regain Helen but Achilles and Agamemnon had not quarreled. How would the story have changed?

11. What are some of the ways the future was revealed to the gods and some of the mortals?

12. Do you think the gods enjoyed interfering with this 'foretelling of the future' to the mortals?

13. What is the main prophecy that Cassandra shares?

14. What part does Aphrodite believe she has played in this whole mess?