Book 5 Notes:
● Athena gives Diomedes godlike powers to dominate on the battlefield and allows him to
see gods
● Diomedes kills a bunch of important Trojans
● Aphrodite gets stabbed in the wrist by Diomedes
● Aeneas gets maimed but rescued and healed by Apollo and Aphrodite.
● Ares joins the Trojans and marches with Hector.
● Hera and Athena join the Greeks.
● Athena helps Diomedes defeat Ares
Character: Diomedes
“Son of Tydeus, watch out and get out. Do not think yourself equal to gods. There is no common
kinship shared by immortal gods and human beings who walk on earth.” (Pg 114 lines 588 - 592)
Character: Hector
“And Diomedes, master of the war cry, shuddered and shivered at the sight of Hector–” (Pg 119
lines 785 - 786)
Character: Ares
“Ares, who longed to take the human’s life” (Pg 129 line 1118)
Book 6 Notes:
● The Greeks start to push forward and win the war
● Menelaus almost spares a Trojan warrior's life but Agememnon convinces him otherwise.
● Diomedes meets Glaucus on the battlefield and they have a short chat about how their
families used to be friends.
● They decide against fighting each other and trade armor as a sign of friendship.
● Another son of Priam Helenus, who is a seer tells Hector he must rouse the troops and get
women to pray to Athena for support.
● Athena does not grant the Trojan prayers.
● Hector goes to his brother Paris and convinces him to come back out and join the
fighting.
● Hector meets his wife Andromache on the ramparts and tells her she has to accept his
death.
● He says goodbye to her and his son, and then goes back out to battle with Paris.
Character: Agamemnon
“All males alive in Troy will die, obliterated all at once, with no one left to care for them”
(Page 135 lines 79-81)
Character: Helen
“I am a source of fear and source of evil strategy-a dog. I wish that at the start, right when my
mother gave birth to me, a cruel gust of wind had borne me to the mountains, or the waves of
loun resounding sea” (Pg 146 lines 461 - 466)
Character: Andromache
“Hector, you are my father and my mother. You are my brother and the vigorous man whose bed
I share. Please think of me, have pity and say here on the wall.” (Pg 150 lines 581 - 583)
Book 7 Notes:
● Hector and Paris join the battle
● Athena goes to help the Greeks but gets intercepted by Apollo
● The two gods agree to work together to stop the battle for the night.
● Helenus tells Hector to challenge a Greek to single combat
● Menelaus accepts when no other Greek does but Agememnon won’t let him
● Nestor gives a rousing speech and 9 different Greeks stand up
● Ajax gets picked and he and Hector fight
● They get stopped by heralds and told they should take a break and continue in the
morning.
● Nestor convinces the Greeks that they should build fortifications around their ships.
● Antenor and the other Trojans try to convince Paris to return Helen but he refuses.
● The Trojans propose a truce to burn the dead and the Greeks agree.
● Poseidon is angry that the Greeks aren't sacrificing enough to the gods.
Character: Poseidon
“Great father Zeus, will any mortals bother to tell their plans and schemes to deathless gods in
any place across the boundless world?” (Pgs 171 - 172 lines 570 - 572)
Character: Nestor
“We have to dig a deep surrounding trench to keep our horses and our people safe when noble
Trojan warriors attack us. He finished speaking, and the leading Greeks all praised the words of
Nestor” (Pg 168 lines 439 - 443)
Character: Ajax
“But there are plenty of others on our side, who are quite capable of standing firm to face you.”
(Pg 164 lines 298 - 300)
