Book 5

• What is Aritsea?


  Finest moments in battle
• What is an Epithet?

  A line that is repeated, usually about a character to help audience remember
• What is Geras?

  Spoils of war that can boost kleos
• What is the importance of the Son, Father language?


  Shows the importance of the bond and the name of the father
• Why does Athena favour Diomedes?

  Because she used to favour his father, Tydeus
• What happens when Pandarus wounds Diomedes?

  Animalistic imagery of diomdeds being angry

  Athena tells him he can strike at Aphrodite

  Pandaurs wounds him with a bow and arrow
• What happens when Aeneas joins Pandarus?

  He is smart, shows good heroic qualities

  Plant to fly on horses
• What happens on the Death of Pandarus?

  Sthelenus sees P and A, warns Diomedes

  D wants to get their horses

  Pandarus thinks he has killed Diomedes, but Diomedes ends up killing him
• What happens when Diomedes wounds Aphrodite?

  After Pandarus dies, Aeneas tries to get his corpse, as Greeks may use it for geras

  Diomedes hits him with a rock on his hip

  Aphrodite saves and shields him

  Diomedes attacks Aphrodite
• What flows through Aphrodite when Diomeded pierces her skin?

  Ichor flows through her, not blood
• What happens when Aphrodite returns to Olympus?

  Iris and Ares help her

  Dione (mum) soothes her

  Gives examples of other gods/goddesses

  Dione foreshadows Diomedes fate

  Athena and Hera mock

  Zeus fatherly side is shown
• What are examples of when gods have been hurt?

  Heras breast was pierced by Heracles

  Ares was trapped in a jar by Otus and Ephialtes
• What does Dione foreshadow?

  She foreshadows that Diomedes‘s wife will sleep with a long lament
• What is three times (Homeric Lit)

  It builds up suspense for the audience
• What happens when Apollo intervenes on battlefield?

  He protects Aeneas by creating a phantom version of him before Diomedes kills him

  Apollo tells Ares to kill Diomedes