Book 13

Question 1

Name of book

Answer 1

The battle at the ships

Question 2

Zeus

Answer 2

turns his eyes away from the battle

Question 3

What Poseidon does because of Zeus’s action

Answer 3

he aids the Greeks

Ajax oileus’s son recognizes the extra strength of Poseidon and that it was not really Calchas who encouraged them

Question 4

Idomeneus

Answer 4

does great deeds

Question 5

Hector

Answer 5

confronts Ajax

Question 6

The Trojans

Answer 6

their advance is chacked

Question 7

The Simile to describe fight and death

Answer 7

“The rope that had knotted for this desperate and even tug-of-war was taunted either way. The rope was unbreakable and no one could undo the knot; but it undid many a man.”

Question 8

Idomeneus’s speech

Answer 8

talks about the spears he has as he does not believe in fighting men at a distance
Bravery is wishing to come to grips with the enemy and not fear death. You would be stabbed in the STOMACH and never in the back fleeing