Book 6

Question 1

Name

Answer 1

Hector and Andromache

Question 2

the battle continues

Answer 2

WITHOUT DIVINE INTERFERENCE

Question 3

The Greeks kill

Answer 3

fourteen trojans

Question 4

Menelaus, Agamemnon and the captive

Answer 4

Menelaus captures Adrestus who supplicates him. Agamemnon shouts disapproval and kills Adrestus
saying the will kill the Trojans down to the babies in their mothers wombs
-Homer calls this sound advice

Question 5

The Advice given to Hector and Aeneas

Answer 5

Helenus, Troy’s best prophet tells Hector and Aeneas to regroup the troops in front of the gates.

Tells Hector to tell their mother to collect the older women at the temple of Athene and to gift her her most precious robe as well as to promise a sacrife

Question 6

The honorable exchange

Answer 6

Glaucus and Diomedes meet to do battle
Diomedes refuses to fight him if he is descended of a god
Glaucus replies “the family of man is like the leaves of the trees” and tells Diomedes about his parentage
Diomedes mentions how his grandfather and Belephron were guest friends
-they exchange armour

Question 7

Glaucus gets the worst of the deal

Answer 7

Zeus robbed Glaucus of his wits, his golden Armour (100 oxen worth) for Diomedes’s bronze one (9 oxen worth)

Question 8

When Hector reaches the Scaen gate

Answer 8

he is approached by WIVES AND DAUGHTERS asking about their sons, brothers, husbands, friends
-Hector tells them to pray to Zeus

Question 9

what does Hector refuse from Hecabe

Answer 9

he refuses Hecabe’s offer of wine

Question 10

What Hector tells Hecabe

Answer 10

to go with offerings to Athene’s temple with the biggest, most precious robe
to pray to have pity on the town

Question 11

What does Hecabe pray for

Answer 11

Diomedes death

Question 12

Athene’s response to their prayers

Answer 12

she shakes her head

Question 13

Where is Paris found

Answer 13

surrounded by Helen and her ladies, examining his superb armour and bow
-Helen again wishes his death

Question 14

what does Hector refuse from Helen

Answer 14

he will not be persuaded to sit down

he wishes to see his family as he is unsure whether he will ever see them again

Question 15

Where had Andromache gone

Answer 15

up Ilium’s great tower to weep for the men

Question 16

Andromache’s and Hector’s meeting

Answer 16

crying she puts her hand in Hector’s
says that she might as well be dead when he is
her father, mother, 7 brothers are all dead
wants him to stay
[Achilles cremated Eetion, Andromache’s father]

Question 17

why Hector refuses to stay

Answer 17

he does not want to appear as a coward

he has been trained to win GLORY for himself and his father

Question 18

What upsets HEctor

Answer 18

is not the destruction of Troy that he foretells
but of Andromache’s loss of freedom
he wishes to be dead before that day

Question 19

Astynax’s reaction to HEctor

Answer 19

he shrinks back with a cry, he is terrified by Hector bronze helmet
Hector and Andromache both laugh

Question 20

Hector’s hopes for Astynax

Answer 20

he prays that he becomes mightier than he, better than his father who brings “home the bloodstained armour of the enemy he has killed and delight his mothers heart”

Question 21

Hector and Andromache’s goodbye

Answer 21

Andromache laughs through her tears
Hector calls her "Dear Heart"
He talks about inescapable death
tells her to work with the loom and the spindle 
war is mens' business

Question 22

Andromache after HEctor leaves

Answer 22

Andromache keeps looking back

gets the women to lament, believing Hector would never return

Question 23

Paris running to meet Hector

Answer 23

compared to a horse who knows how beautiful he is laughing as he ran

Question 24

Hector and Paris

Answer 24

Hector shows love for Paris, he calls him courageous, says the hurtful things the Trojans say about Paris distresses him

Question 25

The meaning of Glaucus and Diomedes meaning

Answer 25

it is a chivalric encounter
the obligations of universal guest friendship
heightens Paris’s dishonour

Question 26

Hector’s portrayal in this book

Answer 26

as the one savior of Troy

Question 27

Andromache believes this will kill HEctor

Answer 27

“this determination of yours will be the death of you”