Women of Troy quotes part 2

Question 1

‘Their bodies lie

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forgotten in a foreign country.’ -Cassandra referring to the dead Greek soldiers (P20)

Question 2

‘The simplest pleasures,

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denied to the Greeks.’ -Cassandra referring to how the Greek soldiers died in a foreign country without family (P21)

Question 3

‘Any sensible man

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must hate war’ -Cassandra (P21)

Question 4

‘It’s surprising how

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often those that seem the wisest and of the highest regard, do things which show them to be something a good deal less.’ -Talthybius (P21)

Question 5

‘let uncontrollable lust …

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get the better of him’ -Talthybius referring to Agamemnon (P22)

Question 6

‘Slaves yourselves, doing

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great men’s dirty work.’ -Cassandra referring to Talthybius (P22)

Question 7

‘gods what good

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were you to us? Betrayers!’ -Hecuba (P24)

Question 8

‘I saw him hacked

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down on the altar steps of our holiest temple’ -Hecuba referring to Priam (P25)

Question 9

‘all the daughters

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I brought up … their good breeding wasted on brutal soldiery and foreigners.’ -Hecuba (P25)

Question 10

‘There is no

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happiness. The lucky ones are dead.’ -Hecuba (P26)

Question 11

‘altars soon to

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drip and smooth floors run slippery with Trojan blood.’ -Chorus (P27)

Question 12

‘a whole generation

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of women raped in their own bedrooms’ -Chorus (P28)

Question 13

‘the Greeks bar

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barously killed!’ -Hecuba referring to Priam’s death (P29)

Question 14

‘The gods

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always hated us.’ -Andromache (P30)

Question 15

‘Suffering people find

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some comfort in tears. To give voice to grief is a kind of pleasure.’ -Chorus (P30)

Question 16

‘We are loot, …

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soldiers’ plunder, born royal, and made slaves! The whole world’s overturned.’ -Andromache (P31)

Question 17

‘filthy, sacrilege …

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butchered like an animal’ -Hecuba (P31)

Question 18

‘no one is happier

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dead. The living at least have hope.’ -Hecuba (P32)

Question 19

‘I aimed at

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the highest a woman could wish for … and now I have lost everything.’ -Andromache (P32)

Question 20

‘If I refuse to allow

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this Prince to touch me, I’ll provoke the hatred of the man whose power is total over me and mine.’ -Andromache (P33)

Question 21

‘I spit in the face

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of any woman who forgets her husband to jump into bed with the next one.’ -Andromache (P33)

Question 22

‘The gods have

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drowned me in an ocean of misery.’ -Hecuba (P34)

Question 23

‘The Gre

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Greek minion’ -Hecuba referring to Talthybius (P34)

Question 24

‘There is no

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decent way to say an indecent thing.’ -Talthybius (P35)

Question 25

‘son of such

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a father should not be allowed to grow up’ -Talthybius (P35)

Question 26

‘They ignored

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our prayers.’ -Hecuba (P58)

Question 27

‘Like loot

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they are stealing us.’ -Hecuba (P58)