Slaves Flashcards
Melantho (disloyal)
18 To Odysseus ‘You still here? You must be soft in the head not to go for your night’s lodging in a smithy or some other doss house instead of airing your views so boldly and disrespectfully in front of these gentleman’
‘Melantho… Penelope had reared and looked after her as tenderly as her own child… but… the girl had no sympathy for Penelope’s woes: She was in love with Eurymachus and had become his mistress’
Melanthius (disloyal)
17 ‘where are you taking this dirty pig of yours, this nauseating beggar and platelicker at the feast?’
Eumaeus
‘the good swineherd’ ‘Eumaeus jumped up in amazement (when Telemachus got back)… he kissed his forehead… like a fond father welcoming his son after 9 years abroad.’
14 (about Odysseus to him in disguise) ‘For I shall never find so kind a master again’
Eurynome (loyal) looks after Penelope
18 in concern for Penelope ‘my child, everything you say is quite right… you mustn’t go like this with your face stained with tears… it’s a bad thing to be endlessly weeping…’
Philoetius the cowherd (loyal)
20 Odysseus (disguised to Philoetius) ‘cowherd, you are clearly an honourable and thoughtful man, and I can tell you are a man who can be trusted… I swear by Zeus… Odysseus will be back…’
His reply ‘…You’d soon know my mettle and what I can do with my right arm’
Eurycleia (loyal)
20 To Telemachus ‘come my child,’ said the level headed Eurycleia, ‘I wish you wouldn’t blame your mother when there is no cause’
‘The excellent Eurycleia issued her orders to the maids’
Recognised the scar
