Odessey Quotes by theme Flashcards
‘He worked fast and felled twenty in all and lopped their branches with his axe’
Odysseus’ physical prowess in Book 5
Odysseus’ physical prowess in Book 5
‘He worked fast and felled twenty in all and lopped their branches with his axe’
‘Three and four times blessed are those countrymen of mine who fell long ago on the broad plains of Troy’
Odysseus wishes to have died at Troy Book 5
Odysseus wishes to have died at Troy Book 5
‘Three and four times blessed are those countrymen of mine who fell long ago on the broad plains of Troy’
‘She is also a wise woman’
Arete in Book 7
Arete in Book 7
She is also a wise woman
‘Only a fool or a nonentity would challenge the friend who is entertaining him in a strange country’
Phaeacians and xenia Book 8
Phaeacians and xenia Book 8
‘Only a fool or a nonentity would challenge the friend who is entertaining him in a strange country’
‘He was ashamed to be seen weeping by the Phaeacians’
Odysseus crying at the bards tale Book 8
Odysseus crying at the bards tale Book 8
‘He was ashamed to be seen weeping by the Phaeacians’
‘Cyclops, if anyone ever asks you how you came by your blindness, tell him your eye was put out by Odysseus, sacker of cities’
Odysseus to Polyphemis in Book 9
Odysseus to Polyphemis in Book 9
‘Cyclops, if anyone ever asks you how you came by your blindness, tell him your eye was put out by Odysseus, sacker of cities’
‘though we who have gone every bit as far come home with empty hands’
Odysseus’ reason crew plot to open the bag of winds book 10
Odysseus’ reason crew plot to open the bag of winds book 10
‘though we who have gone every bit as far come home with empty hands’
‘She prepared a brew in a golden bowl for me to drink and with evil in her heart dropped in the drug’
Circe drugging Odysseus Book 10
Circe drugging Odysseus Book 10
‘She prepared a brew in a golden bowl for me to drink and with evil in her heart dropped in the drug’
‘Three times, like a shadow or a dream, she slipped through my hands’
Odysseus can’t hug Anticleia’s ghost Book 11
Odysseus can’t hug Anticleia’s ghost Book 11
Three times, like a shadow or a dream, she slipped through my hands
odysseus’ question about xenia when entering the land of the Phaecians
‘hostile and uncivalised savages or god fearing people?’
description of the cyclopes
‘a fierce and lawless people’
odysseus’ reminder to polyphemis
‘we are your suppliants, and zeus is the champion of supplients and guests’
polyphemis’ response to odysseus
‘we cyclopes care nothing for zeus’
suitors having bad xenia
‘they feast themselves… with never a thought for the wealth that is being wasted’
telemachus about odysseus’ treatment of the suitors
‘never a harsh word… which only serves to show your shameful behaviour up’
