Finding Evidence about a Character's Culture
What does this passage show about the culture
Achilles was from?
When he was old enough, his father sent him to Thessaly
with an older bey, Patrochus for his companion, to
Chiron, the wisest of all the Centaurs. And with the other
bey Chiron taught him to ride on his own back) and
trained him in all the warrior skills of swort and spear
and bow, and in making the musie of the tyres until the
the came for him to return to his father's court
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Rosemary Sucht
Young men must learn the ways of a warrior from
their elders
Achilles must learn how to play music before he
retums.
O All boys must have a companion when they leave
home
O Boys were routinely banished from home by their
fathers
Done