Iliad - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

What epic convention starts the Iliad? - an invocation to the Muses Who are the Acheans? - the Greeks At what point in the war does the Iliad start? - the last, 10th year What did Agememnon do to anger Apollo? - he dishonored Apollo's priestm Chryses, who came to fetch his daughter How does Apollo punish Agememnon? - he shoots plague of deathly arrows down onto the Acheans How long is Apollo sending arrows to the Acheans? - 9 days Who are the Danaans? - the Greeks How can the Greeks st...

Notes on the key themes in the Iliad with examples - concept & behaviour of a hero, life in Troy & the Greek camp, portrayal of war, death & mortality, menis and reconciliation

40+ page revision document for Virgil's Aeneid, covering all Books on OCR's World of the Hero spec. A book-by-book revision guide with quotes, analysis and direct secondary scholars' arguments and quotes necessary for the top marks. Each book has a summary, lots of analysed quotes and a study of the key themes that crop up across this course, making it a useful resource to study all potential themes that may appear in future exams.

Notes on all Iliad themes including quotes, scholars' quotes, context. Themes include: - Heroism and glory - Wrath (menis) - Suffering, death, and mortality - Portrayal of war - Self-delusion and false optimism - Relationships between gods and men - Fate - Relationships and Family

Iliad Character notes world of the hero A* including context, quotes, scholars analysis, all to get you 100%. Characters include: - Achilles - Agamemnon - Diomedes - Menelaus - Nestor - Odysseus - Patroclus - Dolon - Hector - Paris - Priam - Helen - Etc.

The Iliad: Characters Review Test 2023. Achilles - Answer Greatest Greek warrior; immortal; leader of the Myrmidons; son of the warrior Peleus and the sea nymph Thetis. Priam - Answer King of Troy; husband of Hecuba; father of Hector and Paris. Agamemnon - Answer King of Mycenae; older brother of Menelaus; stole Bryseis from Achilles. Menelaus - Answer King of Sparta; husband of Helen; Helen was stolen by Paris from him. Helen - Answer Most beautiful woman in the world; married to M...

WGU C100 HUMANITIES FINAL EXAM 2024 What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? - correct answer Oedipus Rex What Poet wrote Iliad? - correct answer Homer Greek Architecture was based on what structure? - correct answer Post and Lintel The Greek building most reveared for its use of Ratio and Perspective is? - correct answer The Parthenon Geek plays generally shown in a ? - correct answer Ampitheater Roman Engineering allowed the ______________ to have the larges...

Scholars for A-level 'World of the Hero' Rated A+ 'This ordering of the material is not the result of chance: the poet gets us into the Iliad with an artful display of his liveliest and most emotional manner.' Jasper Griffin. 'Achilles is just a 'superhuman adolescent' T.S. Elliot. "To say, as many commentators do that he 'sulked' is to use an entirely unjustified pejorative term. What he did was the least he could and still retain his self-respect and the respect of his ...

Summaries of what happens in each book of the Iliad with select quotes to show off your knowledge in exams