Tonight, you should start reading Book I of the Iliad.
I will be giving your comprehension questions for Book I tomorrow, and we will start going over the answers on Wednesday. You will have to be completely finished with all the questions by Friday (and there are 41 of them), so you should really make sure that you are keeping up with the reading.
I have posted the Iliad Book I comprehension questions in the comments section of this post.
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Write each answer thoughtfully and thoroughly. Provide a page number and line reference for each answer.
1. According to Homer, what brings devastation to the Achaians?
2. What two men were at the center of the conflict that “put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians?”
3. What started the conflict between Achilleus and Agamemnon?
4. Which god is Chryses a priest for?
5. Who took Chryses’ daughter Chryseis?
6. When Chryses went to see Agamemnon, what did he beg him?
7. How did Agamemnon respond to Chryses’ request?
8. After Chryses prays to Apollo, what does Apollo do?
9. After the plague lasts for 9 days and the Achaians gather, what two things does Achilleus suggest?
10. Who is Kalchas and what does he ask Achilleus to do?
11. According to Kalchas, how can the plague be stopped?
12. When Agamemnon hears Kalchas’s advice, how does he react? Why?
13. What does Agamemnon want in exchange for returning Chryseis to her father?
14. When Achilleus hears that Agamemnon wants another girl in exchange for Chryseis, why does he become so upset? What kind of inequalities does he talk about on page 63?
15. What does Achilleus threaten to do if Agamemnon takes another woman from him or his companions?
16. When Agamemnon hears Achilleus’s threat, what does he threaten him and why?
17. When Agamemnon tells Achilleus that he is going to take Briseis from him, what does Achilleus want to do to Agamemnon?
18. Who keeps Achilleus from killing Agamemnon?
19. What promise does Athene give Achilleus in exchange for sparing Agamemnon?
20. Instead of killing Agamemnon, what does Achilleus do to punish Agamemnon? What is the oath that he makes?
21. Describe Nestor. What advice does he give Agamemnon and Achilleus?
22. According to Agamemnon, why is Achilleus angry and threatening to leave?
23. What two things does Achilleus say he has no intention of doing?
24. Does Agamemnon take Chryseis back to her father? Who takes her instead?
25. Who are Eurybates and Talthybios and what does Agamemnon have them do? Do they want to do this?
26. Even though Achilleus does not want to give Briseis away, how does he treat the men who come to get her?
27. What oath does Achilleus make in front of these men?
28. Does Briseis want to leave Achilleus?
29. Who does Achilleus pray to after Briseis is taken away from him?
30. What does Achilleus want his mother to do for him?
31. How had Thetis, Achilleus’s mother, helped Zeus in the past?
32. Why can't Thetis go to visit Zeus immediately? What advice does she give to her son?
33. What are three things that the Greeks do in Chryse to regain Apollo's favor?
34. When the Achaians sail back to their camp after returning Chryseis to Chryses, what is a sign that Apollo is no longer angry with them?
35. Where does Thetis go on the twelfth day after Achilleus withdrew from the fighting?
36. What does Thetis ask Zeus to do for Achilleus?
37. How does Zeus reply to Thetis's request? Will he do it? Will it be easy for him to do this?
38. When Zeus returns to the feast of the gods in Olympos, why does he fight with Hera?
39. After Zeus and Hera fight, who speaks to Hera and what advice does he give her?
40. What had Zeus once done to Hephaistos a long time ago when Hephaistos had tried to help Hera?
41. How are the gods cheered up after the fight between Zeus and Hera?
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