Book 17

Question 1

name of the book

Answer 1

The struggle over Patroclus’s

Question 2

Menelaus

Answer 2

Stands over Patroclus’s body protecting it
kills Euphorbus
retreats unwillingly before HEctor

Question 3

Hector’s actions with Patroclus

Answer 3

puts on his armour

Zeus sadly remarks that it will be short lived and Andromache will never lift it from his shoulders

Question 4

recovering Patroclus’s body

Answer 4

Ajax fights of the Trojans while Menelaus and Meriones recover the body

Question 5

Glaucus and HEctor

Answer 5

Glaucus rebukes Hector about Sarpedon (unknowing it has been spirited away)
They don’t get the Olympian view of the gods that we have

Question 6

The tone of this book

Answer 6

very dark, confusion of fighting, imagery of dogs and carrion birds, intensification of emotion