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“What is the life of one child against the welfare of all”

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Priam

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“For the fairest” who is the fairest

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Aphrodite

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“Hector’s gift is prowess in war. Mine is

Mere grace and beauty…”

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Paris

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“Must get on with plowing, must be done by dark”

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Odysseus

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“I will buy the sword”

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Achilles

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“We are indeed in the god’s ill favor,. It is better that we go home.”

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Calchas

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“I will repay you for this hour if it takes me ten years of waiting”

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Clytemnestra

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“My mother foretells that a great race shall spring from me…”

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Aeneas

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“Immortal fame”

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Protesilaus

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“It is deeds not words that are needed to prove you are goddess born”

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Agamemnon

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“If you cannot bleed, you shall choke to death “

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Achilles

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“On the tenth day, I swear to return”

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Cressida

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“The sun has dropped from my heaven”

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Troilus

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“One innocent man must die for the people’s sake”

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Odysseus

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“It is true that one way or another my enemies come to a bad end”

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Odysseus

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“You will suffer fearful defeat for the loss of my valor”

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Achilles

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“Since in a year or two I must die, the gods owe me my happiness now”

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Achilles

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“This war is fought on your account, and yet you are not ashamed to make us a mockery to the Greeks by your cowardice”

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Hector

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“Small wonder that both Trojans and Greeks have suffered so long for her sake”

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Spoken about Helen

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“Take pity on me for a little while, since I do not know how to live”

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Andromache

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“I have injured him, but by nursing his fury while we gave utter defeat, he has put himself in the wrong”

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Agamemnon

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“I shall return with Odysseus’ head at my belt perhaps, or even Diomedes”

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Dolon

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“The gray, cold sea was your mother, not Thetis. Have you no more pity than rock?”

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Patroclus

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“Patroclus, fool that you were to think that you could bring my bloodstained armor to the tents of Achilles”

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Hector

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“Are you all afraid of one man”

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Hector

25
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“Fool! Do you think there is any mercy left in my heart for a brother of Hector!”

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Achilles

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“I beg and implore you to let me be buried so that my spirit may go down to the land of the blessed dead”

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Hector

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“I must be the first man on earth who has gone so far as to kiss the hands of the slayer of so many sons”

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Priam

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“Get up old man. Our griefs are only the common lot of mankind after all”

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Achilles

The Trojan War (10 decks)

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