Odyssey part 3 quotes

Question 1

Poseidon and Zeus in Book 13

Answer 1

“turn her in to a rock looking like a ship off-shore”

“respected your anger”

Question 2

Recognition scene with Athene (Book 13)

Answer 2

“we both know how to get our own way”
“I did not notice you then”
“change you beyond recognition”

Question 3

Meeting Eumaeus (Book 14)

Answer 3

“yearning and mourning for the best of masters”

“And you, Eumaeus”

Question 4

Telemachus’ Kleos in Book 15

Answer 4

“come away laden with precious gifts”

“the crew leapt to his orders”

Question 5

Omens in Book 15

Answer 5

Theoclymenus
“bird came flying from the right”
“planning trouble for the whole pack of suitors”

Question 6

Eumaeus’ origin story (Boom 15)

Answer 6

“brought me up… almost as her daughters equal”

“parted with some of his wealth to buy me”

Question 7

Eumaeus and Telemachus being reunited (Book 16)

Answer 7

“tears streamed down his cheeks”

“Like a fond father”

Question 8

Recognition scene with Telemachus

Answer 8

“I am no god… but I am your father”
“they cried aloud piercingly”
“could not yet accept that it was his father”

Question 9

Amphinomous in Book 16

Answer 9

“Penelope found his conversation especially agreeable, because he was a man of principle”

“let us learn the gods’ will”

Question 10

Penelope rebuking the suitors in Book 16

Answer 10

“How dare you plot against Telemachus’ life, showing no compassion to suppliants”

“Medon the herald had heard of the plot and warned her”

Question 11

Telemachus asserting dominance over Penelope in Book 17

Answer 11

“go upstairs to your room with your ladies” “Penelope made no reply”

Question 12

Melanthius in Book 17

Answer 12

“much rather fill his gluttonous belly by grovelling”

“landed a kick on Odysseus’ hip”

Question 13

Argus

Answer 13

“he lay abandoned on the heaps of dung”

Question 14

Antinous assaulting Odysseus in Book 17

Answer 14

“picking up a stool he threw it and struck Odysseus on the back”

“the rest of them were deeply shocked

Question 15

Fight with Irus

Answer 15

“smashed in the bones so that the red blood gushed up through his mouth”

Question 16

Amphinomous and retribution in Book 18

Answer 16

“Athene had already marked him out to fall to a spear from Telemachus”

“filled with a foreboding”

Question 17

Athene adorning Penelope on Book 18

Answer 17

“cleansed her fair cheeks with a divine ointment used by Aphrodite”

Question 18

Telemachus growing up in Book 18

Answer 18

“I am not the child I was”

“when you see a beard on our boys chin, marry whom you want”

Question 19

Melantho

Answer 19

“Melantho now renewed her abuse of Odysseus”

“be careful … or one day you may lose the fine position”

Question 20

Recognition with Eurycleia

Answer 20

“no one that I have seen has reminded me so strongly of Odysseus”
“at once she recognised the scar”
“gripped the old woman’s throat

Question 21

Omens in Book 20

Answer 21

“Zeus… thundered in the clear sky”
“blood was spattered on the food they ate”
“they laughed at him [Theoclymenus]”

Question 22

Philoetius

Answer 22

“my eyes are filled with tears, because you bring Odysseus to my mind”

Question 23

Penelope explaining the bow contest in Book 21

Answer 23

“whoever strings the bow most easily and shoots an arrow through each one of these twelve axes, with that man I will go”

Question 24

Odysseus during the bow contest

Answer 24

(to Philoetius and Eumaeus) “Well, here I am!”

“and it sang as he plucked it with a sound like a swallow’s note”

Question 25

The fight begins (Book 22)

Answer 25

“levelled a deadly shaft straight at Antinous”

“Stranger… you have killed the greatest nobleman in Ithaca”

Question 26

Odysseus revealing himself to the suitors

Answer 26

“you raped my maids; you courted my wife”

“It had not dawned upon the fools that the fate of all of them was sealed”

Question 27

Eurymachus’ last moments

Answer 27

“let’s stand and fight!” “in his agony he beat his forehead on the ground”

Question 28

Telemachus during the great battle

Answer 28

“spear that pierced his [Amphinomus] breast”
“the mistake was mine… I left the tightly fitting door”
“The man [Phemius] is innocent. Don’t kill him.”

Question 29

the torture of Melanthius

Answer 29

“ripped away his genitals as raw meat for the dogs”

Question 30

Athene helping during the great battle

Answer 30

“Made the whole volley miss”

“raised her deadly aegis”

Question 31

The 12 unfaithful maids

Answer 31

“first they removed the bodies” “for a little while their feet twitched”

Question 32

Telemachus rebuking Penelope in Book 23

Answer 32

“your heart was always harder than flint”

Question 33

Odysseus passing the bed test

Answer 33

“a great secret went in to the making of that complicated bed”

Question 34

Recognition with Penelope

Answer 34

“bursting in to tears she ran up to Odysseus”

Question 35

recognition with Laertes

Answer 35

“to question him and thoroughly test him” “flung his arms round his neck and kissed him”

Question 36

Athene ending the conflict

Answer 36

“still using Mentor’s form and voice for her disguise, established peace between the two sides”