Odessey Quotes by theme Flashcards

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‘He worked fast and felled twenty in all and lopped their branches with his axe’

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Odysseus’ physical prowess in Book 5

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Odysseus’ physical prowess in Book 5

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‘He worked fast and felled twenty in all and lopped their branches with his axe’

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‘Three and four times blessed are those countrymen of mine who fell long ago on the broad plains of Troy’

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Odysseus wishes to have died at Troy Book 5

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Odysseus wishes to have died at Troy Book 5

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‘Three and four times blessed are those countrymen of mine who fell long ago on the broad plains of Troy’

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5
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‘She is also a wise woman’

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Arete in Book 7

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Arete in Book 7

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She is also a wise woman

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7
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‘Only a fool or a nonentity would challenge the friend who is entertaining him in a strange country’

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Phaeacians and xenia Book 8

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Phaeacians and xenia Book 8

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‘Only a fool or a nonentity would challenge the friend who is entertaining him in a strange country’

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9
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‘He was ashamed to be seen weeping by the Phaeacians’

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Odysseus crying at the bards tale Book 8

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Odysseus crying at the bards tale Book 8

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‘He was ashamed to be seen weeping by the Phaeacians’

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11
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‘Cyclops, if anyone ever asks you how you came by your blindness, tell him your eye was put out by Odysseus, sacker of cities’

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Odysseus to Polyphemis in Book 9

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Odysseus to Polyphemis in Book 9

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‘Cyclops, if anyone ever asks you how you came by your blindness, tell him your eye was put out by Odysseus, sacker of cities’

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13
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‘though we who have gone every bit as far come home with empty hands’

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Odysseus’ reason crew plot to open the bag of winds book 10

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Odysseus’ reason crew plot to open the bag of winds book 10

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‘though we who have gone every bit as far come home with empty hands’

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15
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‘She prepared a brew in a golden bowl for me to drink and with evil in her heart dropped in the drug’

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Circe drugging Odysseus Book 10

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Circe drugging Odysseus Book 10

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‘She prepared a brew in a golden bowl for me to drink and with evil in her heart dropped in the drug’

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17
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‘Three times, like a shadow or a dream, she slipped through my hands’

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Odysseus can’t hug Anticleia’s ghost Book 11

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18
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Odysseus can’t hug Anticleia’s ghost Book 11

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Three times, like a shadow or a dream, she slipped through my hands

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19
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odysseus’ question about xenia when entering the land of the Phaecians

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‘hostile and uncivalised savages or god fearing people?’

20
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description of the cyclopes

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‘a fierce and lawless people’

21
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odysseus’ reminder to polyphemis

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‘we are your suppliants, and zeus is the champion of supplients and guests’

22
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polyphemis’ response to odysseus

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‘we cyclopes care nothing for zeus’

23
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suitors having bad xenia

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‘they feast themselves… with never a thought for the wealth that is being wasted’

24
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telemachus about odysseus’ treatment of the suitors

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‘never a harsh word… which only serves to show your shameful behaviour up’

25
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dehumanisation of the suitors

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‘that gang over there’

26
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amphinomus’ response to killing Telemachus

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‘I am not willing to put Telemachus to death’

27
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Athene wants Amphinmous to die

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‘Athene had already marked him out to fall’

28
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suitors killed too gruesomely

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‘the whole floor ran with blood’

29
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Antinous insults Penelope

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‘that incomparable schemer, who is the culprit’

30
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Athene about Odysseys in Book 1

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‘it is for Odysseus that my heart is wrung’

31
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Hermes to Calypso - Book 5

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‘zeus bids you to send him off without delay’

32
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gods punished Odysseus - Book 9

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‘sent my fleet a terrible gale’

33
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Penelope about Zeus - book 13

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‘zeus has destroyed my happiness’

34
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Calypso’s treatment of Odysseus - Book 5

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‘i tended him; i offered to make him immortal’

35
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Athene - themes of divine punishment book 12

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‘teach them once and for all’

36
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Odysseus’ men will never reach Ithica - Book 12

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‘there was no homecoming for them: the god saw to that’

37
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Odysseus ignoring his crew

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‘i was not persuaded. i wished to see the owner of the cave’

38
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Odysseus hides things from his crew

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‘I did not mention the unescapable horror of Scylla’

39
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Odysseus lets all his men die but his ship

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‘my ship was safe. but that was the end of all the rest’

40
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Odysseus is cruel about Elpenor

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‘not much of a fighting man and not very clever’

41
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Crew responsible for their own downfall

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‘they undid the bag, the winds all rushed out’

42
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Odysseus has no control or trust in his crew

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‘I handled the sheet of my ship myself without a break, giving it to no one else’

43
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Menelaus about Odysseus

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‘it was Odysseus who strove the hardest and achieved the most’

44
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Odysseus compliments his crew

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‘the six strongest and ablest of men’

45
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odysseus’ unwillingness to sleep with calypso

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‘cold lover, ardent lady’

46
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state of underworld

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‘wrapped in mist and fog’