HECTOR: Flashcards
“My hands are unwashed
and I am ashamed to pour out gleaming wine to Zeus like this”
He found Paris in he bedroom,
fussing over his exquisite armour”
“Our people are dying, fighting right by the city and it’s steep wall-
and it is because of you that the clamour of battle is blazing round this city”
“My heart is eager
now to bring help to the Trojans”
“Their innocent child, no more than a baby,
Hector’s only beloved son, shining lovely as a star”
“Hector looked
at his son and smiled in silence”
“Please, feel pity for us,
stay here on the battlements, so you do not make an orphan of your child and your wife a widow”
"”have the army
take up position by the fig tree”
“I would feel terrible shame before the men of Troy and
the women of Troy with their trailing dresses, if like a coward I sculk away from the fighting”
“May I be dead and the heaped earth cover me before
I hear your screams and the sound of you being dragged away”
“Glorious Hector
took the helmet straight from his head and laid it gleaming bright on the ground”
“He kissed his dear son
and dangled him in his arms”
“they mourned Hector
while he still lived”
You are a brave fighter. But you deliberately
hang back and refuse to fight”
“I hear shaming things said of you by the Trojans
who have much hardships to endure on your account”
“Poulydamas was far better with words,
as Hector was better with the spear”
“I shall not run from him in the grim clash of war,
but stand to face him direct”
“Hector, please
dear child, do not face this an alone”
“Opened the fold of her dress and
held out a breast in her hand”
“If he kills you
I shall not then be able to lay you on the bier and mourn for you”
“as a mountain snake
in his hole waits for the approach of a man”
“If I go back inside the gates of the wall,
Poulydamas will be the first to lay blame on me”
“Promise to return Helen
and all her property with her to the sons of Atreus”
“As when champion strong-footed horses…
when a great prize is there to be won, a tripod or a woman”
“A brave man was running in front,
but a far greater one was running behind”
“Give thought to it, gods, and consider whether
we shall save him from death, or bring him down now”
“Do you intend to take a man
who is mortal and long ago doomed by fate, and release him from grim death?
“As a man in a dream is unable to
pursue someone trying to escape”
“Hector’s day of doom sank down
away into Hades, and Phoebus Apollo left him”
“let us face him together
and beat him off where we stand”
“I will give your body back to the Achaians-
and you do the same”
“There are no treaties of trust between lions and men:
wolves and lambs share no unity of heart”
“there is no escape for you anylonger
but soon Pallas Athene will beat you down under my spear”
“hitting the centre
of the son of Peleus’ shield”
“The gods have
called me to my death”
“Flesh showed where the
collar-bones hold the join of the neck and shoulders”
“The end of death enfolded him:
and his spirit flitted from his body and went on the way to Hades”
“No one who came up to the
body left without stabbing it”
“A cloud of dust arose from him,
his dark air streamed out round him”
“All through the city the people were overcome
with wailing and groans of lamentation”
“Could hardly hold back the
old man in his anguish, as he tried desperately to get back through the Dardanian gates”
“You were my pride in the city, and the benefactor of
all men and women throughout Troy, who welcomed you like a god”
“The heart in my own breast is
leaping up to my mouth, and my legs are freezing under me”
“Covered him over in the gold aegis,
so that Achilles’ dragging of him should not tear his skin”
“Hector is a mortal, and sucked at a woman’s breast,
But Achilles is the son of a goddess whom I myself brought up “
“All the wounds have closed where he was struck…
Such is the care the blessed gods have for your son”
“I have endured to do what no other mortal man on earth has done,
I have brought to my lips the hands of a man who killed my child”
such was the burial they gave Hector,
tamer of horses”
