Book 1- Quotes

Question 1

‘Making decisions must be…

Answer 1

… men’s concern and mine in particular; for I am master of this house.” -Telemachus, Book 1, Line 359

Question 2

‘What a lamentable thing it is that men should…

Answer 2

…blame the gods and regard us the source of their troubles, when it is their own transgressions which bring them suffering that was not their destiny.’-Zeus, Book 1, Line 33

Question 3

‘Welcome Friend! You can…

Answer 3

…tell us what brought you here when you have had some food.’ -Telemachus, Book 1, Line 123

Question 4

‘They helped themselves to the go

Answer 4

…spread before them; and when all had satisfied their hunger and thirst, the Suitors turned their thoughts to other activities.’-Homer about the Suitors, Book 1, Line 149

Question 5

‘I pray that Zeus will bring a…

Answer 5

‘…day of reckoning, when in this house I will destroy you- and not make restitution’.- Telemachus, Book 1, Line 380

Question 6

‘You are no longer a…

Answer 6

‘…child: you must put childish thoughts away.’-Athene in disguise as Mentes, Book 1, Line 298

Question 7

‘One glimpse of him in Ithaca…

Answer 7

‘…and they’d pray for a faster pair of legs rather than gold or rich clothes!’-Telemachus Book 1, Line 162

Question 8

‘The first thing to see was Telemachus…’

Answer 8

‘…the godlike youth, who was sitting disconsolate (unhappy) among the Suitors’.-Homer, Book 1, Line 113