Quotes Flashcards
“So you came back from fighting. Oh, how I wish you had died there / beaten down by the stronger man, who was once my husband”
Iliad, Helen to Paris when he refuses to go to war and fight.
“Evil Paris, beautiful, woman-crazy, cajoling, / better had you never been born, or killed unwedded. / Truly I could have wished it so; it would be far better / than to have you with us to our shame, for others to sneer at. / Surely now the flowing-haired Achaians laugh at us, / thinking you are our bravest champion, only because your / looks are handsome, but there is no shame in your heart, no courage.”
Iliad, Hector to Paris when he refuses to go to war and fight.
“So he spoke. And the anger came on Peleus’s son, and within / his shaggy breast the heart was divided two ways, pondering / whether to draw from beside his thigh the sharpsword”
Iliad, when Achilles first becomes angry.
“King who feed on your people”
Iliad, Achilles criticizing Agamemnon
“With this he was pleasuring his heart, and singing of men’s fame, / as Patroklos was sitting over against him, alone, in silence”
Iliad, Achilles acts as Aoidas while Odysseus acts as Rhapsode
“Sing to me of the man, Muse”
Odyssey, the opening line
“Go someone / quickly, fetch Demodocus now his ringing lyre. / It must be hanging somewhere in the palace”
Odyssey, Demodocus sings of the Iliad / Odysseus, an example of mirroring.
“And the anger came on Peleus’s son”
Iliad, book 1, the first moment Achilles becomes angry
