Book 10 Flashcards
1
Q
Name
A
Diomedes and Odysseus, the night attack
2
Q
main event of this book
A
Odysseus and Diomedes act as spies to discover Trojan intentions
3
Q
Who they capture
A
they capture Dolon a Trojan spy who tells them of the prize horses of the newly arrived Thracian king Rhesus
4
Q
Diomedes and Odysseus after hearing Dolon
A
they kill him
they kill Rhesus and his followers and capture his horses
5
Q
the point of the book
A
offers a new type of action to the poem
6
Q
Agamemnon shown as a caring leader
A
he is unable to sleep so therefore seeks Nestor and together gather the leaders
“My heart is leaping out of my chest, and my knees trembling”
7
Q
Dolon’s death
A
he is about to touch Diomedes’s chin in supplication when he stabs him
