B24 Plot - DONE

Question 1

what does book 24 start off with

Answer 1

hermes leads the souls of the suitors into hades

Question 2

what are agamemnon and achilles talking abt as the suitors enter hades

Answer 2

they’re argueing over who had the better death

Question 3

what d agamemnon and achilles wonder as they see the suitors coming into hades

Answer 3

how so many young men died

Question 4

who explains to agemnon and achilles why the suitors are showing up in hades

Answer 4

amphimedon

Question 5

who is amphimedon, 2d

Answer 5

one of the suitors, he used to know agamemnon

Question 6

what does amphimedon blame for the suitors’ deaths

Answer 6

pene

Question 7

where does ody arrive to in b24

Answer 7

laertes’ farm

Question 8

what is the state of laertes when ody visits him in b24

Answer 8

he has aged out of his grief

Question 9

who does ody present himself as when he visits laertes in b24

Answer 9

an old friend of ody

Question 10

what does laertes do when he hears “ody”

Answer 10

he breaks down crying

Question 11

what does ody do when laertes starts crying in b24

Answer 11

proves his identity as the real ody

Question 12

how does ody prove his identity as the real ody to laertes in b24, 2d

Answer 12

his shows his scar, and talks abt the fruit trees that laertes gave him

Question 13

what are the fruit trees that laertes gave ody - names and numbers for all of them

Answer 13

13 pear
10 apple
40 fig trees
50 brown of vines

Question 14

who joins ody and laertes while they’re having lunch

Answer 14

dolius

Question 15

who is dolius

Answer 15

father of melanthius and melantho

Question 16

what happens while dolius, ody, and laertes start to have lunch together

Answer 16

goddess rumor spreads news x the massacre x the suitors

Question 17

what happens after rumor spreads new x the massacre

Answer 17

the parents x the suitors have a meeting

Question 18

what are the 2 opposing points of view expressed at the meeting x the suitors’ parents

Answer 18

• the suitors got what they deserve
• the parents should seek revenge againt ody

Question 19

at the meeting x the suitors’ parents, who says that the suitors got what they deserve

Answer 19

Halitherses

Question 20

who is Halitherses

Answer 20

the elder prophet

Question 21

at the meeting x the suitors’ parents, who says that the parents should seek revenge againt ody

Answer 21

Eupithes

Question 22

who is Eupithes

Answer 22

antinous’ father

Question 23

what do the suitors’ parents do after their meeting

Answer 23

they track ody to laertes’ hous

Question 24

what happens when suitors’ parents pull up to laertes hosue (which is where ody currently is)

Answer 24

athena stops the violence

Question 25

who is athena disguised as when she stops the violence against ody at laertes house

Answer 25

mentor

Question 26

what violence is not stopped by athena, which takes place at laertes house after the suitors' parents pull up after their assembly

Answer 26

laertes kills eupithes

Question 27

what is the state ithaca is left in at the end of b24

Answer 27

peace

Question 27

what is athena's 2 final actions in b24

Answer 27

makes the ithacans forget the massacre of their children, and makes the ithacans recognize ody as their king

Question 28

what are the 2 re unions w fathers that happen in the odysseu

Answer 28

tele and ody, ody and laertes