Book 5

Question 1

Name of Book

Answer 1

Diomedes’s heroics

Question 2

Diomedes wounded by

Answer 2

Pandarus on the shoulder

Question 3

what advantage does he get

Answer 3

Athene enables him to see the gods
allows him to fight against Aphrodite
makes his shield and helmet glow

Question 4

Major attacks he does on his own

Answer 4

Pandarus and Aeneas set out in a chariot to fight him
kills Pandarus
cripples Aeneas with a massive rock
and Aphrodite when she saves Aeneas

Question 5

who he attacks among the gods

Answer 5

wounds Aphrodite as she saves Aeneas

with Athene he wounds Ares

Question 6

meaning of Pandarus’s death

Answer 6

metonymic symbol for fall of troy

his repayment for his treachery

Question 7

Point of the chapter

Answer 7

to remind us that even without Achilles the Greeks still have great heroes
Diomedes respects his leader

Question 8

God’s support fro HEctor

Answer 8

Ares helps Hector wreck havoc

Question 9

Description of ARes

Answer 9

murderous Ares, butcher of men and sacker of towns