Quotes Flashcards
“What is the life of one child against the welfare of all”
Priam
“For the fairest” who is the fairest
Aphrodite
“Hector’s gift is prowess in war. Mine is
Mere grace and beauty…”
Paris
“Must get on with plowing, must be done by dark”
Odysseus
“I will buy the sword”
Achilles
“We are indeed in the god’s ill favor,. It is better that we go home.”
Calchas
“I will repay you for this hour if it takes me ten years of waiting”
Clytemnestra
“My mother foretells that a great race shall spring from me…”
Aeneas
“Immortal fame”
Protesilaus
“It is deeds not words that are needed to prove you are goddess born”
Agamemnon
“If you cannot bleed, you shall choke to death “
Achilles
“On the tenth day, I swear to return”
Cressida
“The sun has dropped from my heaven”
Troilus
“One innocent man must die for the people’s sake”
Odysseus
“It is true that one way or another my enemies come to a bad end”
Odysseus
“You will suffer fearful defeat for the loss of my valor”
Achilles
“Since in a year or two I must die, the gods owe me my happiness now”
Achilles
“This war is fought on your account, and yet you are not ashamed to make us a mockery to the Greeks by your cowardice”
Hector
“Small wonder that both Trojans and Greeks have suffered so long for her sake”
Spoken about Helen
“Take pity on me for a little while, since I do not know how to live”
Andromache
“I have injured him, but by nursing his fury while we gave utter defeat, he has put himself in the wrong”
Agamemnon
“I shall return with Odysseus’ head at my belt perhaps, or even Diomedes”
Dolon
“The gray, cold sea was your mother, not Thetis. Have you no more pity than rock?”
Patroclus
“Patroclus, fool that you were to think that you could bring my bloodstained armor to the tents of Achilles”
Hector
