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FlashCards por Zoe Emmett, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Zoe Emmett
aproximadamente 9 anos atrás
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| Questão | Responda |
| How does book 18 start? | Achilles is told of the death of Patroclus |
| Who breaks the news to Achilles? | Antilochus |
| How does Achilles react and who responds to his reaction? | He collapses in grief and his mother Thetis responds by visiting him |
| What does Thetis tell Achilles? | That he will not live long after Hector's death |
| What is Achilles promised by Thetis? | Armour made by Hephaestus |
| Whom does Hera send to Achilles and why? | Isis is sent to rouse Achilles - urges him to show himself to the Trojans |
| How is his appearance described on the battlefield? | A piercing cry like the sound that rings out from a trumpet when a town is surrounded by murderous enemies. |
| What epic simile is used to describe Achilles on the battlefield? | Like smoke that goes up into the sky of a town from some beleaguered island which enemy troops are besieging; beacon-fires blaze up one after the other |
| Who advises Hector to retreat and what is his response? | Polydamus - Hector disagrees and urges the Trojans to fight. |
| What do the Greeks do at the end of the book? | Perform the funeral rights for Patroclus |
| How does Hephaestus receive Thetis? | He offers her Xenia and is pleased to help her in return for the kindess that she showed him |
| Hephaestus makes Achilles a shield - describe what the shield depicts | Constellations, Marriage, Court Case, Seige and Ambush, Ploughing, Reaping, Grape Harvest, Cattle-Herding, Sheep- Flocks, Ocean - life in and out of war |
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