The iliad - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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.

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...

This is a complete Iliad Quote Bank, covering the Books of the poem included in the OCR specimen. It includes quotes by character and theme, as well as some criticism for each. Within each character and theme, the quotes are sorted into categories that one might find helpful as arguments / paragraphs in an essay. The characters and themes covered include: Achilles, Patroclus, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Priam, Paris, Hector, The Gods, Women, War and Heroism, Similes.

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...

Chapter 3: Ancient Greek Civilization 1. During the Mycenaean civilization, who was the great poet and what were his two important literary works that influenced the Greeks and formed part of Western literature? Homer, Iliad and the Odyssey 2. In a period known as the Dark Ages from 1100 B.C. to 800 B.C., life reverted to simpler forms and people lived in relative isolation. 3. The period from the 9th to the 6th century B.C. is known as the Archaic Age 4. A typical Greek city-state would ...

What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? Oedipus Rex What Poet wrote Iliad? Homer Greek Architecture was based on what structure? Post and Lintel The Greek building most reveared for its use of Ratio and Perspective is? The Parthenon Geek plays generally shown in a ? Ampitheater Roman Engineering allowed the ______________ to have the largest single span dome for Centeries. The Patheon

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 ...

In depth summaries of Virigl's Aeneid and Homer's Odyssey. Contains a break down through all the books and contains key quotes in bold

Option 1: The Iliad Answer all the questions in Section A and one question in Section B. Section A Choose one translation of the Iliad and answer the questions. Passage A Homer, Iliad, 17.277–299 OR 3 OCR 2023 H008/11 Jun23 Turn over 1 Give two details about the death of Patroclus. [2] 2 Why do you think both sides are fighting for Patroclus’ dead body in Passage A? [1] 3 Which side succeeds in taking Patroclus’ body: the Greeks or the Trojans? [1] 4 Explain how Passage A is a ...

GACE History 34, 35 Latest Update with Certified Solutions fluvial civilizations Civilizations that arose in river valleys (Mesopotamia, Egypt, etc.) Fertile Crescent Cradle of civilization from the Persian Gulf to the Sinai Peninsula (coined by Egyptologist James Breasted) Mesopotamia The location of the first civilization, the Akkadians, led by Sargon Sumerians Mesopotamian civilization. Invented the wheel, developed irrigation, cuneiform. Code of Hammurabi Famous Babylonian...