Question

How does Calchas's vision advance the plot of the play? Answer choices for the above question A.It leads Odysseus to devise a plan to trick the Trojans. B.It encourages Sinon to volunteer to stay outside the city of Troy. C.It convinces Agamemnon that the city of Troy must be taken by force. D.It foreshadows Cassandra's prophecy that the Trojan Horse is a trick.

Answer 1

Answer:

A.It leads Odysseus to devise a plan to trick the Trojans.

Explanation:

In the Iliad, Calchas a prophet tells the Greeks that the captured Chryseis must be returned to her father Chryses so that the gods would stop afflicting them with the plague. Achilles and Agamemnon quarrel and fall out because Agamemnon requests that Breseis, Achilles' slave be used as a replacement for Chryseis.

This angered Achilles who refused this proposal and as a result, refused to keep fighting in the war, which caused massive loss of men for the Greeks.

King Odysseus seeing that they were losing the war, had to devise the trick of the Trojan Horse to defeat Troy.