Book 23

Question 1

Name

Answer 1

The funeral and the Games

Question 2

The Myrmidons

Answer 2

led by Avchilles in their lamentations

they drive their chariots round Patroclus three times

Question 3

Achilles’s treatment of Hector

Answer 3

flings him down on his fave by Patroclus’s bier “foully maltreated”

Question 4

Achilles oath about burial

Answer 4

swears the oath before Agamemnon that he will not wash till Patroclus is cremated and buried

Question 5

Achilles’s dream

Answer 5

PAtroclus visits him and asks him to bury him as quickly as possible
asks to be buried with Achilles
Patroclus vanishes gibbering before Achilles can touch him, he weeps

Question 6

THe next day Achilles is found

Answer 6

found at dawn still mourning

Question 7

Achilles’s hair for the cremation

Answer 7

he cuts of a lock dedicated to the river Spercheus, Peleus had wanted it chopped off upon Achilles’s return, he chops it because he will never return

Question 8

Patroclus’s cremation

Answer 8

calls upon the winds to light the fire
many sheep killed
two jars of honey and oil
four horses
two of Patroclus's nine dogs
twelve Trojans "murderously"

Question 9

The gods take care of Hector’s body

Answer 9

Aphrodite anoints his body with Ambrosial oil of roses

Apollo covers him in a cloud so he would not wither in the sun

Question 10

Achilles weeping over Patroclus

Answer 10

wept like a father mourning his son who has died and left his parents inconsolable

Question 11

The point of the funeral games

Answer 11

lots of arguing

Achilles proves to be a fair judge

Question 12

The horse race Eumelus

Answer 12

Eumelus comes last as his horses crash but he drags the chariot
Achilles suggests giving first prize to diomedes the winner and second to Eumelus

Question 13

The horse race Antilochus

Answer 13

Antilochus Nestor’s son had come second through tactics and argues he should still get second prize
Achilles agrees and finds a different prize for Eumelus

Question 14

The horse race Menelaus

Answer 14

angry, argues Antilochus cut in front of him
Antilochus give him his prize (a mare)
Menelaus pleased given him back the mare since h has worked hard on his behalf (how Achilles and Agamemnon should have acted)

Question 15

The horse race and Nestor

Answer 15

Achilles gives Nestor a prize for nothing

Question 16

The wrestling

Answer 16

stops the wrestling between Odysseus and Ajax and calls them both winners

Question 17

The foot race

Answer 17

Ajax winning
Odysseus prays for Athene’s help
he becomes lighter and Ajax trips up
Ajax makes a light hearted joke about Athene being like Odysseus’s mother the Greeks laugh
Antilochus the looser says it is hard to beat Odysseus for any but Achilles
Achilles doubles Antilochus’s prize of gold

Question 18

Combat

Answer 18

Ajax Diomedes
Ajax loses his spear
all the Greeks are afraid for him and stop the batle

Question 19

ARchery

Answer 19

Teucer did not pray to Apollo so only hit the cord, as the bird flies away Meriones quickly shoots the bird because he promised a sacrifice to Apollo under his breath

Question 20

Spear throwing

Answer 20

Achilles says to Agamemnon

“we know by how much you excel the rest of us” and gives him the first prize without the competition starting”

Question 21

The point of the dream

Answer 21

the necessity of burial is made clear
a miserable image of the afterlife is painted
Achilles trying to hold onto Patroclus wants to live really, doesn’t need glory