In case you lost your copy of the Reading Response 1 questions, here they are:
Reading Assignment: Iliad Bk 1 & 3, read summary of Bk 2 from handout, look over chronologies and family trees to help you sort through what's going on in the first book.
Answers to the questions for this Reading Response should be about 1 paragraph per question since they're mostly just guiding questions as you get used to reading the Iliad.
Book 1
1. What are the motivations for the argument between Agamemnon and Achilles?
2. What do you think of Achilles and Agamemnon thus far? Why?
Book 3
1. How would you describe the relationship between Paris and his brother Hektor?
2. Who wins the duel between Paris and Menelaus? How?
3. What is Helen’s attitude toward Paris? What does Aphrodite do about it?
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