Iliad ...

1. I’ll take “either your own prize, or that of  Ajax,” says Agamemnon to Achilles.  “but we shall consider these things later” (I, 138,140).  Since Agamemnon has not made a definite threat at this point, the quarrel could have died there.  Show why it doesn’t.
2. “. . .and the men swiftly set up the splendid hacatomb for the god/ in good order around the well-built altar,” Homer says as the Greeks prepared their sacrifice (I, 447-448).  Using the event as described by Homer, show how the Olympic religion seems to have worked.
3. Homer describes two cities on Achilles’ shield, the city at war—“they dashed in battle and they fought like living men (XVIII, 538)”—and the city at peace.  And he describes the country and its activities—“a herd of straight-horned cattle (XVIII, 573)”—and many other scenes.  Give as general a description as you can of this world that Homer describes.

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