Book 10

Question 1

Name

Answer 1

Diomedes and Odysseus, the night attack

Question 2

main event of this book

Answer 2

Odysseus and Diomedes act as spies to discover Trojan intentions

Question 3

Who they capture

Answer 3

they capture Dolon a Trojan spy who tells them of the prize horses of the newly arrived Thracian king Rhesus

Question 4

Diomedes and Odysseus after hearing Dolon

Answer 4

they kill him

they kill Rhesus and his followers and capture his horses

Question 5

the point of the book

Answer 5

offers a new type of action to the poem

Question 6

Agamemnon shown as a caring leader

Answer 6

he is unable to sleep so therefore seeks Nestor and together gather the leaders
“My heart is leaping out of my chest, and my knees trembling”

Question 7

Dolon’s death

Answer 7

he is about to touch Diomedes’s chin in supplication when he stabs him