After Hector's death, "Piteously his father groaned, and round him/lamentation spread throughout the town,/most like the clamor to be heard if Ilion's/towers, top to bottom, seethed in flames." This simile suggests that

a. Priam set fire to the town.

b. the body of Hector was burned in a funeral fire.

c. Priam's groan was louder than the roar of the flames.

d. the death of Hector meant the end of Troy.

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Madeleine Phelps

15 August, 07:47

After Hector's death, "Piteously his father groaned, and round him/lamentation spread throughout the town,/most like the clamor to be heard if Ilion's/towers, top to bottom, seethed in flames." This simile suggests that

a. Priam set fire to the town.

b. the body of Hector was burned in a funeral fire.

c. Priam's groan was louder than the roar of the flames.

d. the death of Hector meant the end of Troy.

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Dyer · Answer 1

The simile "like the clamor to be heard if Ilion's towers, top to bottom, seethed in flames" suggests that C. Priam's groan was louder than the roar of the flames.

He definitely did not set fire to the town - he started crying because his son, Hector, was killed.