Oratory

Question 1

Who is hit by the sceptre? What rule does he break?

Answer 1

Thersites - is struck by the sceptre (symbol of ruling/authority) for breaking themis (orderly procedure) by talking out of turn/without authority at council

Question 2

Muses

Answer 2

‘sing to me now, you Muses….you are goddesses, you are everywhere, you know all things – all we hear is the distant ring of glory, we know nothing’ 2.575 [prior to the listing of the ships]

Question 3

What is the greatest thing Odysseus ‘has done for men’?

Answer 3

Striking Thersites with the sceptre - rated above all his ‘thousand strokes’