AA WORLD HISTORY
ANCIENT GREEKLITERATUREASSIGNMENT
From THE ILIAD by Homer
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
DUE DATE
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THIS ASSIGNMENT Will
NOT BE ACCEPTED LATE
Ancient Greek and Roman Timeline
Ancient Greece and Rome
Introduction to The Iliad
Book One The Iliad
pages
pages
106-113
120-122
pages
124-139
ON A SEPARATE PIECEOF PAPER, answer the questions below as you read the assigned readings listed
above. Answers must be in complete sentences and written in blue or blackink to receive credit.
Double space between questions, and do not use the back side of the page. You may type your
answers if you choose.
Complete one of the assignment options described at the end of the questions. Again, all writing must
be in final draft forinat - blue or black ink, double-spaced, correct margins, on one side of the page.
As always, you may type this portion of the assignment.
3.
According to the passage, the Greeks of Homer's time believed The Iliad contained which of the
. following:
Practical approaches for besieging a city.
Guidelines for interacting with the gods.
Accounts of their own heroic ancestors.
Realistic examples of life in ancient Greece.
The
The
The
The
belief
belief
belief
belief
they were descendants of Hellen.
they were a single, unified nation.
that religious institutions were unnecessary.
the neighboring peoples were equals.
21. Criticizing Agamemnon in Book One, Achilles says, "I swear a day will come when every
Achaean soldier will groan to have Achilles back." What does this foreshadow?
22. What impression do you form of Agamemnon's character from his own words and actions and
the reactions of Calchas and Achilles? Provide support for your impression from the writing.
23. What ominous or threatening images can you identify in the first fifteen lines of Book One?
Give specific examples. What future events do these foreshadow?
24. Describe the individual roles of Apollo, Athena, and Thetis in Book One. Is the god/goddess an
aloof observer, fair intermediary, or meddling nuisance? Provide support for your answer.
25. Do you think Achilles is justified in his wrath against Agamemnon and his subsequent
withdrawal from battle? Provide support/justification
for your answer.
Choose Q.!J.gof the assignment options listed below and complete as part of The 1/iadproject.
reminder:
This must be done in final draft format.
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This means blue or black ink, double spaced, one
side of the paper, with correct margins. As always; you may type this assignment.
1.
Design your own hero. The hero must have the superior qualities as well as the human qualities
of the epic hero. Once the hero is designed, build a story around him/her.
The story should
contain some of the same qualities found in the epic.
2.
Select a passage from Book One and tell it in your own way~ If can be done as the lead
paragraph of a newspaper or magazine article from the passage.
4.
Keep a journal for a particular character.
character's point of view.
5.
Write a dramatic presentation
might be:
The events in the diary will be told from that
between two of the characters in Book One. Good possibilities
Conversation between Chryses and Agamemnon
Confrontation between Agamemnon and Achilles