Book 12

Question 1

Name of Book

Answer 1

Hector storms the wall

Question 2

Polydamas’s advice to Hector

Answer 2

advice dismounting from chariots and attacking the wall by foot (a leader who continues fighting by chariot is killed, shows Polydamas should be respected)

Question 3

Hector explains the Greek wall fell because

Answer 3

The Greeks had not made offerings to the gods when they built it, therefore it did not last for long

Question 4

Homer explains he is unable to describe the whole story

Answer 4

“It would be difficult for me to tell the whole story, as if I had the abilities of a god”

Question 5

The omen and Polydamas

Answer 5

An eagle carrying a snake that bites it and is thus free

Polydamas suggests not fighting the Greeks round their ships

Question 6

Hector’s response to Polydamas’s advice

Answer 6

rejects the omen
“fight for your country-that is the best and only omen”
Hector threatens to kill him if he dissuades any of the troops from fighting

Question 7

Sarpedon

Answer 7

compared to a lion

speaks to Glaucus, if he wasn’t sure of becoming “ageless and immortal” he would not fight in the front line, honorable.

Question 8

Sarpedon’s actions

Answer 8

pulls away some of the wall creating a breach for the hordes

Question 9

the batlle

Answer 9

takes place over the walls, very chaotic

Question 10

First inside the wall

Answer 10

Hector

Question 11

Hector’s fighting

Answer 11

first inside the walls

picks up a rock (made light by Zeus) hurling it he breaks open the gates

Question 12

The GReeks

Answer 12

flee

Question 13

last line of the Book

Answer 13

” and all hell broke loose”