Women of Troy quotes part 1

Question 1

‘puddles of blood

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smear the sanctuaries of all the gods.’ -Poseidon (P5)

Question 2

‘All worship ceases,

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and there’s no longer anything left worth a god’s consideration.’ -Poseidon (P6)

Question 3

‘even the god

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Apollo left untouched as a virgin’ -Poseidon referring to Cassandra (P6)

Question 4

‘dangerous business … that

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that flouts all religious feeling.’ -Poseidon referring to Agamemnon taking Cassandra as his concubine (P6)

Question 5

‘cavalier change of

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mind’ -Poseidon referring to Athene’s decision to switch allies from the Greeks to the Trojans (P7)

Question 6

‘I’ve been insulted,

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my temple desecrated!’ -Athene (P8)

Question 7

‘Ajax dragged Cassandra

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from sanctuary.’ -Poseidon (P8)

Question 8

‘respect my temples,

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and fear the power of the gods.’ -Athene (P9)

Question 9

‘When a man sacks

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a town and destroys everything, even sacred temples and the tombs of the dead, he’s asking for trouble.’ -Poseidon (P9)

Question 10

‘An old woman,

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dragged as a slave from my home, all hope plundered’ -Hecuba (P10)

Question 11

‘whose misery is

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greater, the dead, whose day is passed, or the living, who must live in slavery’ -Hecuba (P11-12)

Question 12

‘Perhaps forced into

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the bed of some loathsome Greek’ -Chorus (P13)

Question 13

‘Athens, God-favoured

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city of Theseus, may I come to you’ -Chorus (P13)

Question 14

‘she’s for him.

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In darkness. In his bed.’ -Talthybius (P15)

Question 15

‘She is a consecrated

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virgin, Apollo’s nun.’ -Hecuba referring to Cassandra (P15)

Question 16

‘to serve Achilles,

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at his tomb.’ -Talthybius referring to Polyxena (P15)

Question 17

‘To be a slave

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of a man without morality’ -Hecuba (P16)

Question 18

‘thrust at spear-point

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into some Greek’s as a slave of his lust!’ -Hecuba (P16)

Question 19

‘I’ll kill him,

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and destroy his whole family’ -Cassandra referring to Agamemnon (P19)

Question 20

‘For the sake

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of one woman, and one moment of uncontrollable lust … cost them tens of thousands dead!’ -Cassandra (P19)

Question 21

‘Anyone … who thinks

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himself prosperous and secure, is a fool.’ -Hecuba (P54)

Question 22

‘The force that

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that governs our lives, what else is it but a madman’ -Hecuba (P54)

Question 23

‘no happy man

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stays lucky or happy for long.’ -Hecuba (P54)

Question 24

‘All I have done

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in my life has meant nothing to the vindictive gods.’ -Hecuba (P56)

Question 25

‘All our sacrifices,

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all our offerings have been quit worthless’ -Hecuba (P56)

Question 26

‘He wants her

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because she’s sacred. He’s shot through with lust.’ -Talthybius referring to Agamemnon’s plant to make Cassandra his concubine (P15)