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Question 1
Aeneas tries to embrace his father, Anchises, but his hands pass right through the shade. This mirrors a scene between Odysseus and his mother. Question 2 Hector’s wife begs him not to return to the battle-front because she says, all of her immediate male adult blood relatives have been killed in the Trojan war at her home-town of Thebes (PS: it’s a different Thebes than Oedipus &), and he is all she has left. Question 3 Achilles, when he rejoins the fighting, battles both mortals and gods Question 4 ” Potiphar’s Wife & stories, like that of Bellerophon, involve a hero falsely accused of seducing or raping his social/political superior. Question 5 The story of Meleager as Phoenix tells it in Iliad 9 omits any mention of a magic log, which is central to Ovid’s telling of Meleager story Question 6 Penelope tried to deter the suitors by weaving and secretly unraveling her father- in-law’s funeral shroud, which she insists she must finish before she can remarry. Question 7
