General Quiz Assignment
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Question 1
Aeneas tries to embrace his father, Anchises, but his hands pass right through
the shade. This mirrors a scene between Odysseus and his mother.
Question 2
Hector's wife begs him not to return to the battle-front because she says, all of
her immediate male adult blood relatives have been killed in the Trojan war at
her home-town of Thebes (PS: it's a different Thebes than Oedipus &), and he is
all she has left.
Question 3
Achilles, when he rejoins the fighting, battles both mortals and gods
Question 4
" Potiphar's Wife & stories, like that of Bellerophon, involve a hero falsely accused
of seducing or raping his social/political superior.
Question 5
The story of Meleager as Phoenix tells it in Iliad 9 omits any mention of a magic
log, which is central to Ovid's telling of Meleager story
Question 6
Penelope tried to deter the suitors by weaving and secretly unraveling her father-
in-law's funeral shroud, which she insists she must finish before she can remarry.
Question 7
Odysseus sees an area in the realm of the dead were people who committed
suicide reside
Question 8
In the realm of the dead, Achilles regrets his youthful but glorious death
Question 9
Glaucus, despite being overmatched, wounds and nearly kills Diomedes.
Question 10
Aphrodite favors the Greek side in the Trojan war
