Episode 11 Quiz
Welcome to the quiz for Episode 011: Who Was Homer?. See what you remember about Homeric authorship and the closing eight books of the Iliad by clicking “START” below!
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After killing Hector, Achilles:
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The river Xanthus becomes angry at Achilles because:
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Fully clad in divine armor, in Book 19 of the Iliad this character says, “Nothing matters to me now / But killing, and blood, and men in agony”
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The Funeral Games for Patroclus, among other things, involve:
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The archaeological site of Wilusa, commonly thought to be the city Homer’s Troy is modeled after, is located where?
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Nestor’s cup, an artifact from Ischia, contains the first known reference to the Iliad in archaeology. To what year have archaeologists dated this cup?
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One of the ways Homer scholars have traditionally tried to date the Iliad‘s period of composition is:
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In the 24th and final book of the Iliad, this character laments that after the death of his favorite son, “all I have left / Are these petty delinquents, pretty boys, and cheats.”
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The phrase dios Achilleus shows two of what kind of poetic foot?
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Says, “[I] have endured such things as no other mortal man upon the earth, / drawing to my lips the hands of hte man who killed my son.”
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Xanthus and Simois, which make a prominent appearance in Book 21 of the Iliad, are:
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This object is given an incredibly extensive description in Book 18 of the Iliad.
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Erratic changes in poetic meter in certain parts of the Iliad are often believed to indicate:
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This great Homeric scholar studied bardic traditions in Yugoslavia in order to theorize about how much poetry a single person could actually have memorized.
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The word literary scholars use to describe a lengthy verbal description of a work of art (such as armor or a statue) in a text is:
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