Q 01/05
A) Ithaca
B) Crete
C) Rhodes
D) Lesbos
Answer · why
Modern Ithaca in the Ionian Sea is generally accepted as his home, though some scholars argue Homer meant the Paliki peninsula of neighbouring Kefalon...
Q 02/05
A) One year
B) Ten years
C) Three years
D) Twenty years
Answer · why
Add the ten-year siege of Troy and he has been away twenty years by the time he reaches Penelope.
Q 03/05
A) 12
B) 18
C) 20
D) 24
Answer · why
The division is credited to Alexandrian scholars centuries after Homer; each book was assigned a letter of the Greek alphabet.
Q 04/05
A) Iambic pentameter
B) Elegiac couplets
C) Trochaic tetrameter
D) Dactylic hexameter
Answer · why
Stock epithets like 'rosy-fingered Dawn' exist largely because they slot neatly into that metre, a boon for singers improvising aloud.
Q 05/05
A) 4,000
B) 6,000
C) 9,000
D) 12,000
Answer · why
Emily Wilson's 2017 translation kept to exactly the same number of lines as the Greek, in iambic pentameter.
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