Iliad Book 6

Cards (27)

  • Whose life does Menelaus almost spare and why?
    Adrestus because he offers a ransom
  • Who convinces Menelaus to kill Adrestus and why?
    Agamemnon because he doesn't want to leave a single Trojan alive
  • Who tells Aeneas and Hector to rally the troops and hold their position?
    Helenus (seer + son of Priam)
  • Who tells Hector to organise a sacrifice to Athene?
    Helenus
  • Where does Hector run to?
    Troy
  • Who meets and discusses their grandfathers?
    Glaucus + Diomedes
  • Who were Glaucus and Diomedes' grandfathers?
    Glaucus -> Bellerophon
    Diomedes -> Adrastus
  • What do Glaucus and Diomedes do after finding out their grandfathers were friends?
    They agree not to fight each other + swap armour as a show of friendship
  • Where does Hector go first when he reaches Troy?
    Priam's palace to look for his mother, Hecuba
  • What does Hecuba offer Hector?
    Wine
  • What does Hector tell Hecuba to prepare?
    A sacrifice for Athene
  • What does Hecuba prepare for the sacrifice to Athene?
    Her finest robe + 12 heifers
  • What does Athene do with Hecuba's sacrifice?
    She rejects it
  • What does Hector find Paris doing in his room?
    Polishing his armour
  • What do Hector and Helen say to Paris?
    They tell him he's lazy and that he needs to go back to the battlefield
  • What does Paris claim when confronted?
    That he is grief-stricken but since Helen wants him to go back he will consider it
  • What does Hector agree with?
    That Hector's criticism is fair and to arm himself to catch up to Hector to go back to battle
  • Where does Hector go after visiting Priam's palace?
    His own home, to see his wife, Andromache
  • Where does Hector find Andromache?
    A tower
  • Who does Hector find Andromache with?
    Their son, Astyanax
  • Who does Andromache grieve on the tower?
    Her brothers and father, whom Achilles killed, and her mother whom Achilles made a slave and was then killed by Artemis
  • What is Andromache afraid of if Hector dies?
    Becoming a widow + Greek slave
  • Who doesn't recognise Hector and why?
    Astyanax because of Hector's bloody helmet + plume
  • How do Andromache and Hector react to Astyanax being afraid of his father's armour?
    They laugh
  • What does Hector tell Andromache to do before leaving?
    Go back to her weaving
  • What do the Trojan women do after Hector leaves?
    They mourn him because they know he won't come back
  • What is the quote about war by Hector to Andromache?
    "The war shall be the men's concern”