answered: • 1) analyze the following “ritualized actions” (type-scenes

  

• 1) analyze the following “ritualized actions” (type-scenes) Food and feasting and The hero’s dressing and arming
in the books: (Books 16 (Aristeia of Patroklos)
Books 17 (Aristeia of Menelaos; The fight over the body of Patroklos)
Book 18 (Achilles’s grief; The shield of Achilles)
Book 19 (Achilles’s anger unleashed)
Book 21 (Achilles fights the river; read only lines 1-158 and 256-455)
Your analysis should refer to the books for this unit but also briefly refer to stock scenes of the same kind studied in the previous books.
In your analysis, pay attention to the following:
• Why are these scenes important?
• What do they reveal of the sociality of warriors and the traditions they abide by?
• Do they contribute to the establishment of a “community”?
2) Analyze the role of Achilles’s immortal horses in the poem and answer the following questions:
• Why does Homer insert these characters?
• What do they reveal of human-animal relations?
• Why is the immortality of the horses included twice in the poem—both in Achilles’s and in Aeneas’s horses?
Write as much as you see fit to conduct a proper analysis, Be clear, and precise in your statements.