Book 4 Flashcards
Name of the Book
The Oath is Broken and Battle Joined
The book begins with
the gods arguing, Zeus purposefully tries to annoy Hera by asking whether peace should be made
The Gods feelings for men
Zeus loves Ilium but is willing to let it go
Hera says Zeus can sack any of her three favorite cities,
makes peace with him and asks for the Trojans to brake the oath
How the Gods break the oath
Athene disguised as Laodocus the spear man approaches Pandarus and convinces him that shooting at Menelaus would bring him GLORY
-Homer calls him a fall
Pandarus’s bow
great description of the goat horn bow and how the goat was killed
The arrow and Menelaus
Athene makes sure it only hurts Menelaus and soes not kill him
the wound compared to a purple cheek piece, a rulers ADORNMENT for his horse
Agamemnon’s reaction to Menelaus’s wound
shows he cares for him
sends him to Machaon to be healed
Agamemnon prepares the men for battle
inspects them BY FOOT
encouraging or criticizing
talks with the heroes and praises them
Agamemnon criticizes Odysseus
when Odysseus gets angry in return Agamemnon apologises and promises to make up for any insults later
Agamemnon criticises Diomedes
says he does not fight as his father Tydeus did, gives a description of his fathers skill
Diomedes accepts the insult from the “leader he respected”
The Greek army
advances silently
The Trojan Army
like sheep in a rich mans field bleating incessantly (the army is from different places and thus speak different languages) decadent and disorganised
death of Simoisus
a description of his birth
his life was to short to repay his parents for their loving care
every death
is linked, each death is the cause for another
End of the chapter
ends with “Trojans and Geeks that day lay in their multitudes, stretched out alongside each other, face down in the dust”.
