Book 2

Question 1

Name

Answer 1

A Dream, A testing and the catalog of ships

Question 2

The unstable position

Answer 2

Agamemnon tests the men mentioning their homeland

The Greeks rush for the ships

Question 3

Why Agamemnon tests the men

Answer 3

It is unclear

perhaps shows bad leadership

Question 4

Odysseus

Answer 4

Odysseus’s grasp of the situation and quick wit is important

Although Athene asks him to use his eloquence he was chosen by her and acting of his own will

Question 5

the point of the catalog of ships

Answer 5

widens the scale of the poem, includes the whole Mediterranean world

Question 6

Homer calls on the muses

Answer 6

“Now you tell, me, Muse, of all the men and horses that crossed with Agamemnon and Menelaus, which were by far the best”

Question 7

The Dream

Answer 7

Zeus had sent a dream to Agamemnon convincing him the Greeks could win and it was time to take Troy, this was in order to fulfill his promise to Thetis

Question 8

Zeus changes Agamemnon’s appearance

Answer 8

to a “bull that clearly stands out”

“with head and eyes like those of Zeus”

Question 9

Athene supports the Greeks

Answer 9

“with them went grey eyed Athene….filling the heart of every Greek with courage”