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SAMPLE READING QUIZLET, WITH ANSWERS

University of Arkansas
Fall, 2009. Classical Studies 1003
Quizlet:  Iliad 21-24

Identify the speaker, addressee, context, and state what will happen next.

1.  "I am at your knees, Achilles.  Pity me.
You have to respect me as your supliant
For I tasted Demeter's holy grain with you
On that day you took me captive in the orchard
And sent me far from my father and friends,
Sold into sacred Lemnos for a hundred oxen."

Speaker/Addressee:  Trojan Lycaon to Achilles
Context: Achilles on his way back from taking 12 live captives to slaughter for Patroclus.
Next:  Achilles will kill Lycaon, telling him that since Patroclus' death he will spare no captives.



2. "Earthshaker, you would call me imprudent
If I fought with you for the sake of mortals,
Pitiful creatures who like leaves on a tree
Flame briefly to life, eat the fruit of the fields,
Then wither and die.  No, we should desist
Immediately and let them fight on their own."

Speaker/Addressee:  Apollo to Poseidon
Context:  The gods are fighting one another on behalf of Trojans and Achaians
Next;  Apollo will withdraw, "too well-bred to slug it out with his paternal uncle."


3. "Hear me, Patroclus, even from Hades.
All that I promised you I am completing now.
Twelve Trojans, sons of good families,
The fire consume with you. Hector, though,
I will not give to the fire to eat, but to dogs."

Speaker/Addressee:  Achilles to the spirit of dead Patroclus
Context:  Achilles has piled the pyre and killed his hostages, and is preparing to cremate his friend's corpse.
Next:  Aphrodite will protect Hector's body; the pyre will not light; 
Achilles prays to the Winds to help the pyre burn;  they blow, and the pyre burns all night.
Achilles announces the funeral games for Patroclus. 


4.  "Think of your own father, and pity me.
I am more pitiable, I have borne what no man 
Who has walked this earth has ever yet borne.
I have kissed the hand of the man who killed my son."

Speaker/Addressee:  Priam to Achilles
Context:  Priam has come secretly to Achilles' hut to beg for the body of his son Hector
Next:  Achilles and Priam will cry for their respective losses, and Achilles will grant Priam's request.