the iliad
Answer the following questions based on The Iliad in your textbook, World Literature I Part One, on pp. 106-118. Your responses for each questions should be 150 words or more each.
1. Who is Apollo? What is the source of his anger and why does he send a plague?
2. Why are Achilles and Agamemnon at odds? Who do you think is right and why?
3. Compare and contrast the power that Achilles and Agamemnon have. What do you think this epic poem is saying about power?
4. What does the poem reveal about the status of women based on Chryseis, Briseis, and Helen? How do their relationships with men in the poem define their lives?