The Odyssey Flashcards
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Bright eyed
Athene
white
bones
not alone but with
two waiting women
drew a fold
of her bright head dress over her cheeks
bursting into
tears she broke in on the worthy minstrel
pass my days in
mourning for the best of husbands
she was impressed by the good
sense that her son had shown
the elders made way for him as he took
his fathers seat
AS he spoke his passion rose; and at the end he
burst into tears and flung his staff on the ground
for three years she
fooled us with this trick
a big fire was blazing on the
hearth and the scent from burning logs… wafted
Calypso was singing in a
beautiful voice as she wove at the loom
horned owls
and falcons
four crystal rivulets where
trained to run this way and that
even an immortal visitor must pause
to gaze in wonder and delight
The divine Calypso listened in
fear and trembling
his eyes where wet
with weeping as they always where
I too know well enough that my
wise Penelope’s looks and stature are insignificant compared with yours
Odysseus’ knees
shoot and his spirit quailed
They are the lucky ones,
those country men of mine that fell long ago on the broad plains of troy
For two nights
and two days he was lost in the heavy seas
Pieces of skin
stripped from his study hands were left sticking to the crag
Athene filled Odysseus’ eyes
with sleep and sealed their lids
the noble and
much enduring Odysseus
Nausicca, tall and
beautiful as a goddess
he advanced on them like a
mountain lion
only one to stand firm… Athene,
who stopped her limbs from trembling
no lovelier
sapling ever sprang from the ground
That is the kind of man whom
I could fancy for a husband
people here have little
affection for strangers
golden
doors
For the Phaeacians’ extraudinary skill in handling
ships at sea is rivalled by the dexterity of their women folk at the loom
Threw his arms
Around aretes knees
Never for a moment did she
Win my heart
Laodamas why
Vex me with your challenges
One can see you are no
Sportsman
With this he leapt to his feet and…
Picked up the biggest disk of all
His theme was the love of
Ares and Aphrodite
The tortoise catches up
The hare
you have made up your mind to probe into my
troubles and so to intensify my grief
I said we ought to be off
but my fools of men refused
I had to use force to bring them back to the ships and…
left them in ions
formidable
monster
for I had an instant
foreboding
dashed their heads against
the floor as though they had been puppies
limb by limb he tore them to pieces to make his meal, which he
devoured like a mountain lion
we handled our pole with its red hot point and
twisted it in his eye till the blood boiled up
he gave it willingly and presented me with a leather bag… in which he had
imprisoned the boisterous energies of all the winds
I am not one to entertain and equip a man
detested by the blessed gods
Antiphates wife
a creature of mountainous proportions
One by one they harpooned their
prey like fish
ruddy
smoke
unbridled
savagery
They burst into sobs and tears
streamed down their cheeks
Prowling about the place were
mountain lions and wolves, actually the drugged victims of Circe’s magic
(Circe) singing in her
beautiful voice as she went to and fro at her great and everlasting loom
polished
doors
In their ________ innocence the whole party except Eurylochus followed them in.
innocence
they shed tears in their
sties
But I shall go. It is my
plain and bounden duty
-Hemes gave Odysseus what?-
a herb he had plucked from the ground (moly)
I am sure you are Odysseus, the man whom
nothing defeats
Its high time you thought of
Ithaca again
I’m not going to keep you in my house against
your wishes
Panic drained
the blood from my cheeks
my dead mother, Anticleia… my eyes
filled with tears when I saw her
I would not allow her to approach…
before I had had speech with Teiresias
Thrice, in my eagerness…. Thrice, like a shadow or a
dream, she slipped through my arms and left me harrowed by an even sharper pain
Cunningnever be too
Trustful of your wife
My concionce wouldn’t let me
Turn away a stranger
I am eager
Too fight
Flung his arms
Around his noble fathers neck
You must steel your heart to my
Maltreatment
It’s a dreadful thing to spill the
Blood of princes
I denounce you for the
Double dealing ruffian that you are (Antinous)
Whilst all of the tome he had the
Murder for her son in his heart (eurymachus)
Telemachus my
Darling boy
He wagged his
Tail and dropped his ears
He succumbed to the black
Hand of death
Ah I was wrong in thinking your brains
Might match your looks (o to Antinous)
He just shook his head in silence,
Filled with revengeful thoughts
Nearly died of
Laughing
Amphinomus you seem to me
A thoroughly decent fellow
Not that it saved him from his fate for Athene
Had already marked the man out to fall victim
He liked to see her extorting
Tribute from her lovers
I simply wear my heart out in longing
For odysseus
He mad all these lying yarns
Of his so convincing
Unless there is some old
And respectable dame
I’d right hand sought and
Gripped the old woman’s neck
Delight and anguish
Swept through her heart (eurycleia)
The forth time he put such
A pressure on the bow he might have well have strung it, if o hadn’t put an end to his attempts with a shake of his head
Eumaeus gave way
To tears
Kissed him
Fondly
He strung the bow as easily as a
Musician who knows his lure strings
Panic drained
The blood from their cheeks
You wooed my wife
On the sly
Skulls cracked and the hideous
Groans of dying men were heard, and the whole floor ran with blood
Leodes clasped os knees and burst into anguished appeal…
O looked at him with disgust
That sea of blood her instinct was to raise a yell
Of triumph
Gloat in
Silence
You strange
Hard hearted mother of mine
Patient Odysseus
Smiled
Your words are a
Knife to my heart
All at once her heart
Melted
Sweet as the sight of land
To sailors struggling in the sea
Their feet twitched
But not for long
Melanthius… ripped away his
Privy parts
There was not one
He failed to recognise
