Which details from the text support the claim that this passage is an allegory for the Great Purge? Select two options.
In The Iliad, one reason Hector can be considered an epic hero is because he
Read the passage from The Iliad.When Hector heard this he was glad, and went about among the Trojan ranks holding his spear by the middle to keep them back, and they all sat down at his bidding: but the Achaeans still aimed at him with stones and arrows, till Agamemnon shouted to them saying, "Hold, Argives, shoot not, sons of the Achaeans; Hector desires to speak.”They ceased taking aim and were still, whereon Hector spoke. "Hear from my mouth,” said he, "Trojans and Achaeans, the saying of Alexandrus, through whom this quarrel has come about. He bids the Trojans and Achaeans lay their armour upon the ground, while he and Menelaus fight in the midst of you for Helen and all her wealth.
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The Odyssey - Amphimedon shows that Greek society valued loyalty because of the way
Read the passage from The Odyssey - Amphimedon."Amphimedon,What ruin brought you into this undergloom?All in a body, picked men, and so young?One could not better choose the kingdom's pride.Were you at sea, aboard ship, and Poseidonblew up a dire wind and foundering waves,or cattle-raiding, were you, on the mainland,or in a fight for some stronghold, or women,when the foe hit you to your mortal hurt?Tell me, answer my question. Guest and friendI say I am of yours—or do you not rememberI visited your family there?”
Read the passage from The Odyssey - AmphimedonThe swineherd led him to the manor laterin rags like a foul beggar, old and broken,propped on a stick. These tatters that he worehid him so well that none of us could know himwhen he turned up, not even the older men.We jeered at him, took potshots at him, cursed him.Daylight and evening in his own great hallhe bore it, patient as a stone.
Based on Agamemnon’s and Amphimedon’s speeches in The Odyssey - Amphimedon, how have the characters been changed by their deaths?
Read the passage from The Odyssey - Teiresias.‘Then a seaborne deathsoft as this hand of mist will come upon you when you are wearied out with rich old age,your country folk in blessed peace around you.And all this shall be just as I foretell.’
Read the excerpt from a discussion of themes in The Odyssey - Penelope.Throughout Penelope’s encounter with the disguised Odysseus, she demonstrates how loyal she has been to him during his long absence.
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