Women of Troy quotes part 3

Question 1

‘Please be

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sensible.’ -Talthybius addressing Andromache after she is told that Astyanax shall die (P35)

Question 2

‘You are quite

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without any power to prevent it’ -Talthybius (P36)

Question 3

‘If you say anything

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to anger the army your child may not be properly buried’ -Talthybius (36)

Question 4

‘too dangerous

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to live’ -Andromache (P36)

Question 5

‘Your father’s courage …

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is a death sentence for you.’ -Andromache (P36)

Question 6

‘callously murdered,

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butchered by the Greeks’ -Andromache (P36)

Question 7

‘You have dreamed

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up such cruelties that even the barbarians would flinch at!’ -Andromache (P37)

Question 8

‘Destruction … and Envy

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and Murder and Death’ -Andromache claiming the names of Helen’s true fathers (P37)

Question 9

‘The gods are

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destroying us all.’ -Andromache (P37)

Question 10

‘Ten thousand men

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are dead for one woman, and her hated marriage bed.’ -Chorus (P37-38)

Question 11

‘I’m not half

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hard enough.’ -Talthybius is not ‘tough’ enough to kill Astyanax himself (P38)

Question 12

‘There is no agony

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we don’t already feel, no abyss of pain to discover.’ -Hecuba (P38)

Question 13

‘I am the ma

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n, Menelaus’ -Menelaus (P40)

Question 14

‘the man who

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stole my wife, violated the sanctity of my much loved home’ -Menelaus (P40)

Question 15

‘I’ve certainly made

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made him pay for that – with the gods help of course.’ -Menelaus (P40)

Question 16

‘Don’t risk becoming

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a slave of your lust again.’ -Hecuba warning Menelaus (P41)

Question 17

‘Exported, … my exceptional

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beauty was a saleable asset for Greece!’ -Helen (P43)

Question 18

‘punish the destructive

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power of love; and in doing so, proclaim yourself superior to Zeus’ -Helen (P44)

Question 19

‘I was raped,

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not married.’ -Helen (P44)

Question 20

‘Don’t attempt to

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disguise your own wickedness by accusing the immortals of such stupidity.’ -Hecuba in response to Helen’s arguments (P45)

Question 21

‘You were wet

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with lust the moment you saw him!’ -Hecuba referring to Helen seeing Paris

Question 22

‘Sensuality and senselessness

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have more in common than a first syllable.’ -Hecuba (P46)

Question 23

‘Loyalty, duty, love?

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Not worth that much to you, any of it!’ -Hecuba referring to Helen (P46)

Question 24

‘Respectable women spit

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at you in contempt.’ -Hecuba referring to Helen (P47)

Question 25

‘Consummate the Greek

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victory by killing your wife!’ -Helen pleading with Menelaus (P47)

Question 26

‘Do you care,

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, on your radiant throne in the heavens’ -Chorus (P49)