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Leaving Cert Classical Studies: War & its impact in the epics

How often War & its impact in the epics comes up on the Classical Studies papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

HL Asked on 1 of the last 3 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2024.

War & its impact in the epics, Higher Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on War & its impact in the epics.

(a)Who kills King Priam in Aeneid 2, and where?
  1. Ulysses, at the city gate
  2. Pyrrhus, at the altar of his palace
  3. Pyrrhus, in the temple of Minerva
(b)Odysseus weeping at Demodocus' song is compared in a simile to what?
  1. A lost child crying alone in a dark forest
  2. A lion robbed of its cubs by hunters
  3. A woman over her husband killed in war
(c)In Odyssey 11, what does Achilles' ghost say about death?
  1. He'd rather be a poor labourer alive than rule the dead
  2. He longs to go back and fight at Troy once again
  3. He is proud to have died young and famous at Troy
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(a) Pyrrhus, at the altar of his palace

(b) A woman over her husband killed in war

(c) He'd rather be a poor labourer alive than rule the dead

Your turn: Higher Level questions on War & its impact in the epics.

Higher Level

Asked on 1 of the last 3 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2024.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2025Not asked
2024Q13
2023Not asked

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More War & its impact in the epics questions

War & its impact in the epics, 2 marks

Why does Coroebus die on Troy's last night?

  1. He is crushed by the sea-serpents with Laocoön
  2. He betrays Troy to the Greeks and is killed for it
  3. He charges to save Cassandra as she is dragged away
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He charges to save Cassandra as she is dragged away

Coroebus came to Troy hoping to marry Cassandra. When he sees her dragged from Minerva's temple, he charges the Greeks and is killed. Aeneas' band is cut down in a hopeless fight.

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