This material has been used for many years by Professor Tom Sienkewicz in his courses at Howard University and
at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. If you have any questions, you may contact him at toms@monm.edu.
ANALYSIS OF ILIAD XIII
This analysis is based upon A Study of the "Iliad" in Translation by Frank Lowry Clark. (Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 1927).
I. Zeus turns his attention away from the battlefield; meanwhile Poseidon revives the courage of the Greeks, I-124
II. Continuation of the battle at the ships, 125-205
III. The aristeia of Idomeneus, who for a while stays the victorious advance of Hector upon the ships, 2206-672
IV. Hector rallies the Trojans, and at the close of the book is about to take the ships, (end)