Black+Ships+Before+Troy

//**Black Ships Before Troy **// //**Answer the following questions in complete sentences, using information from the text.**//
 * CHAPTER 1, QUESTIONS **

====Myrmidons - Members of warlike Thessalian ( A region of east-central Greece between the Pindus Mountains and the Aegean Sea) people who were ruled by Achilles and followed him on the expedition against Troy.====


 * ====Troy - An ancient ruined city in NW Turkey====


 * ====Zeus - King of the Gods====
 * ====Priam & Hecuba - Paris's parents====
 * ====Oenone - Wood nymph - Paris's love before Helen====
 * ====King Menelaus - King of Sparta====
 * ====Odysseus - A king of Ithaca and Greek leader in the Trojan War====

Ithaca - Island W. Greece

**CHAPTER 2 QUESTIONS ** //**Black Ships Before Troy **// //**Answer the following questions in complete sentences, using information from the text.**//

1. What does Menelaus do when he finds out that Helen left with Paris? 2. Who is Achilles? Be specific. What is the one spot on his body that was not touched by the River Styx? 3. How does Achilles’s mother hide him? How is he tricked out of hiding?

**Important Quote: “Short life and long fame for me.” Who said it and what does it mean? Would you want a life like this? Why or why not?**

**Other important names/ places to recognize from this chapter. Know the bulleted names. ** *** Agamemnon - High king over Greece, Menelaus’s brother.** **Greek Soldiers and Leaders Against Troy** **Nestor** **Ajax** **Diomedes** **Idomeneus** **Patroclus - Achilles’s companion** **Chiron - Wisest of the Centaurs** ** Isle of Scyros - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">island <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in Greece, the southernmost of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**King Lycomedes - King of Scyros who hides Achilles** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Calchas - Most famous soothsayer** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Hephaestus - Smith of the gods**
 * **Mycenae - An Ancient Greek city in the northeast Peloponnese that flourished during the Bronze Age.**
 * **Styx - River in the underworld**

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CHAPTER 3 QUESTIONS ** //**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Ships Before Troy **// //**Answer the following questions in complete sentences, using information from the text.**//

1. Describe the battle between the Trojans and the Greeks. Be specific. So far, how long has it gone on? Why does a fever come to the Greek camps? 2. Who does Achilles argue with? Over what? What does he swear to do? What does he tell his mother to do?

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Other important names/ places to recognize from this chapter. Know the bulleted names. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Prince Protesilaus** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Hector - Trojan prince and war leader** > **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CHAPTER 4 QUESTIONS ** //**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Ships Before Troy **// //**Answer the following questions in complete sentences, using information from the text.**//
 * ** Chryseis & Briseis - Maidens caught during the war and made slaves to Agamemnon and Achilles **
 * **Apollo - Sun God**

1. How does Zeus try to convince Agamemnon to attack Troy? What is Agamemnon's reaction to Zeus's ploy? (pg. 23) 2. How does Agamemnon test the temper of his "army"? What is the army's reaction? What's Odysseus's reaction. Be as specific as possible. (pg. 24 - 25) 3. Who is Paris afraid of? Once Hector helps Paris regain his courage, what is the bargain struck up between him and Menelaus? (pgs. 26) 4. Describe the battle between Menelaus and Paris. How does Aphrodite intervene? (pgs. 28 - 29) 5. Throughout the chapter, how does Helen react to the conflict between Paris and Menelaus? Be as specific as possible.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CHAPTER 5 QUESTIONS ** **//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad //**
 * Answer the following questions in complete sentences, using information from the text.**

1. How does Athene affect relations between Troy and Greece? Be specific. (pgs. 32-33) 2. Describe Hector? What role does he play in the battle with Greece? (pg. 34+) 3. How does the chapter end? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CHAPTER 6 QUESTIONS ** 1. What is Athene’s reaction to the Trojan’s rally against the Greeks? Be specific. (pg. 41) 2. Describe the battle between Ajax and Hector. Be specific. How did it end? (pgs. 42-43) 3. Describe what happens once the battle resumes. Be specific. What does Diomedes do? What about Zeus? How does Agamemnon feel? (pgs. 43-45) 4. What is Nestor’s idea? How does Agamemnon react? Who is to carry out this plan? 5. How does Achilles’s react to his guests and their proposition? Why do you think Achilles’s reacts this way? Be specific.
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad //**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Answer the following questions in complete sentences, using information from the text. **

1. What idea does Menelaus have on how to obtain information about Troy’s strategies? Who partakes in this effort? (pgs. 49-52) 2. Who is Dolan? What do Odysseus and Diomedes learn from him? (pg 52-53) 3. How does the chapter end?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> CHAPTER 7 QUESTIONS **
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad //**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Answer the following questions in complete sentences, using information from the text. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> * Ajax
 * Other important names / places to recognize from this chapter. Know the starred names. **
 * Diomedes


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CHAPTER 8 QUESTIONS - Red Rain **
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad // **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Answer the following questions in complete sentences, using information from the text. **

1. What is the omen that Zeus sends to the Greeks and how do they respond? (pg. 56-57) 2. What happens to Agamemnon in battle? How does Hector respond, and does his response help or hurt Hector? Be specific. (pg. 58) 3. What happens to Diomedes and Odysseus? (pgs. 58-59) 4. What happens to Machaon? What does old Nestor think Patroclus should do? Be specific. (pgs. 60-61). 5. Paragraph Response: What have been some of the strategies in this war so far and how have they impacted each side? In the end, who has made better decisions? What makes you say this? Make sure you use specific examples from the text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CHAPTER 9 QUESTIONS - "Battle for the Ships" ** //**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad **//
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Answer the following questions in complete sentences, using information from the text. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1. What does the battle between the Trojans and the Greeks look like in the beginning of this chapter? (pgs. 62-63) 2. How do Zeus and Poseidon intervene? (pgs. 66-67) 3. How does the chapter end?

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**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CHAPTER 10 QUESTIONS - "The Armor of Achilles" **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Answer the following questions in complete sentences, using information from the text. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. What does Patroclus ask of Achilles? How does Achilles respond? (pg. 70) 2. What does Achilles pray to Zeus? How does Zeus respond, and what do you think this means for the Greeks and / or the Trojans? (pg. 71) 3. Why is Zeus so upset when Sarpedon dies? What does he do in response? (pg. 72) 4. Describe Petroclus’s death. What are the last words he says to Hector? (pgs 73-74) 5. How does the chapter end? Who is winning, the Greeks or the Trojans? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CHAPTER 11 QUESTIONS - "Vengeance for Patroclus" ** //**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad **// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Answer the following questions in complete sentences, using information from the text.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: medium;">1. What does Achilles’s do when he hears about the death of Patroclus? What does his mother, Thetis, want to bring him? (pg. 77) 2. What does Achilles’s horse warn him of? Do you think he is telling the truth? Why or why not? (pg. 80) 3. Describe Achilles and Hector’s confrontation. How does it end? Include who Hector say will avenge him? (pgs. 81-83) 4. What roles do honor and dishonor play in this chapter? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CHAPTERS 12 & 13, STUDY GUIDE **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Funeral Games" and "Ransom for Hector" **

Answer the following questions in complete sentences, using information from the text. 1. Specifically, why does Andromache lament, aside from her obvious grief over her husband’s death? Give two answers. (pg. 85) 2. Describe Patroclus’s burial and the games that followed. Be specific, identifying the type of games they played and their winners. (pg. 85 - 88) 3. Describe what happens at the end of the chapter. ( pg. 89 - 90) 4. Describe how the Gods intervene in the beginning of “Random for Hector.” (pg. 91 - 93) 5. Describe the exchange between Achilles and Priam. What does Priam give Achilles for Hector’s body? How is the exchanged handled? Was it civil? (pgs. 93 - 94) 6. Describe Hector’s burial. (pgs. 93 - 96) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CHAPTERS 14 & 15, STUDY GUIDE ** // **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad ** // **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Luck of Troy” and “Warrior Women” **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">1. Why does Odysseus pose as a beggar? How does he get into Troy? Be specific. (pgs. 98 - 100) 2. How does Helen find out that the beggar is really Odysseus? What does she do when she finds out? (pgs. 102 - 104) 3. Is Odysseus successful in his mission? Be specific about his actions. How does he get out of Troy? (pgs. 105 - 107) 4. Who are the women warriors? How does it end for them? Look at the whole chapter. Other important names / places to recognize from this chapter. Know the starred names.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* Ares - God of war **

** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CHAPTERS 16 & 17, STUDY GUIDE ** //** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad **//
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* Penthesilea - Young queen of the Amazons. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Death of Achilles” and “Poisoned Arrow” **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Who is King Memnon and what kind of man is he? (pgs. 114 - 115) 2. Describe the battle between Memnon and Antilochus. How did Achilles intervene? (pgs. 115 - 116) 3. How is Achilles fatally wounded, and by whom? What is his response? Describe the events after his death, including the conflict between Odysseus and Ajax that leads to his death. (pgs. 117 - 121). 4. How did the Greeks respond to Ajax’s death? What did Calchas say the had to do? (pgs. 123 - 124) 5. In what condition do Odysseus and Diomedes find Philoctetes? How does Philoctetes end up helping? (pgs. 124 - 127)

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