The Iliad Book 16 Study Questions

1. What does Patroclus convince Achilles to do?
2. Who kills Zeus’s son Sarpedon?
3. What happens to Patroclus?
4. Look up aristeia and tell what it means. 
5. How well does Patroclus’s rampage in Book 16 of The Iliad fit the typical pattern of an aristeia?
6. For what purpose does Homer shift multiple times to second-person narration in Book 16 of The Iliad?
7. In Book 16 of The Iliad, how do Achilles’s instructions to Patroclus relate to the themes of pride and humanity?
8. How does Achilleus react to the death of Patroklos? 
9. How does this compare to the Trojans reaction to Hektor’s death?