Book 22

Question 1

Name of book

Answer 1

the death of HEctor

Question 2

as the Trojans run to the ground, what is HEctor doing

Answer 2

deadly destiny shackled HEctor outside Ilium at the Scaen gate

Question 3

Achilles at the begging

Answer 3

still chasing Agenor, Apollo reveals himself to Achilles who answers angrily

Question 4

As Achilles runs across the plain what is he compared to

Answer 4

compared to Orion’s dog the brightest star that heralds no good

Question 5

Priam to Hector

Answer 5

begs him to return
asks him to have pity on his father
Priam is worried about being eaten by his own dogs

Question 6

HEcabe to Hector

Answer 6

pleads him because if not neither she nor her wife would ever lay him on a bier
asks him to remember what she has done for him (holds up her breasts)

Question 7

Why HEctor refuses to retreat

Answer 7

beacause Polydamas would blame him for not takeing his advice. He does not want to be shamed. He would rather die gloriously.

Question 8

Went Hector sees Achilles

Answer 8

In a panick starts to run round the city eith Achilles in “hot pursuit” THey circle Ilium three times

Question 9

HEctor during the chase

Answer 9

keeps trying to make for the Dardanida gate, he now wishes to escape now that he knows death is close behind “demons of death”

Question 10

Simile to describe Hector and Achilles

Answer 10

Achilles-hunting animals
Hector- docile ones
Dream, pursuer, purseud cannot move a limb

Question 11

The gods against HEctor

Answer 11

Zeus holds up the scales, they sink down on Hector’s side, spelling his doom
Apollo deserts him

Question 12

Athene against HEctor

Answer 12

tells Achilles to stop running

disguised as Hector’s brother Deiphobus tells HEctor they will stand against Achilles together

Question 13

Hector speeks with Achilles

Answer 13

tells him that if he kills him he will only strip his body but then give the GReeks back his body

Question 14

Achilles response to HEctor

Answer 14

Lions dont come to terms with men, the wolf doesn’t see eye to eye with the lamb- they are enemies to the end and refuses to make a truce.

Question 15

The battle

Answer 15

Achilles misses (Athene brings him back his spear)
Hectors spear rebounds of Achilles’s shield
Hector draws his sword
Achilles sabs him in th windpipe

Question 16

Hectors dying words

Answer 16

pleads Achilles to give up his body

Achilles refuses

Question 17

The Greek treatment of Hector’s corps

Answer 17

they repeatedly stab it
Achilles “foully maltreated godlike Hector”
slicing into his tendons at the back of both feet, inserted leather straps which he ties to his chariot

Question 18

Priam upon HEctor’s death

Answer 18

tries to go out of the Dardanian gate
the pople stop him
grovels in the dung

Question 19

Andromache before HEctors death

Answer 19

had not yet heard the news
she had been weaving
had just got her waiting women to put a large cauldron on the fire for HEctors bath when he returned from the battle
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Question 20

Andromache when she knows HEctor is dead

Answer 20

When she hears lamentation she guesses Hector death
blames his overconfidence and courage
when she sees Hector being dragged of she faints and crashes backwards
She weeps for the miseries Astynax will endure without a father

Question 21

end of the book

Answer 21

“and the women took up the cry”

Question 22

sympathy created for Hector

Answer 22

Zeus regrets his death

all the gods oppose him

Question 23

This book creates

Answer 23

raw emotion generated by war