Thursday, March 1, 2007

The Iliad Book 16 - Read pp. 434-441 lines 800 - end

Summarization of main points

  • There's a lot of fighting
  • Patroclus fights and kills most of the imporant commanders of the Trojan army
  • Hector fights Ajax
  • Ajax dies
  • Patroclus dies; he is killed by Hector
  • The Trojans retreat
Questions

  • Did Ajax die or not? I'm confused.
  • Why do think Hector kill Patroclus?

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