Women of Troy quotes part 4

Question 1

‘Hecuba, whose unnumbered

Answer 1

tears match the numberless dead she grieves for.’ -Poseidon (P6)

Question 2

‘The old life

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is gone, old gods, old hearth and home, destroyed.’ -Hecuba (P9)

Question 3

‘I, who in Troy

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held my state as a Queen, half divine, with Kings to pay me homage!’ -Hecuba enslavement is a humiliation (P12)

Question 4

‘just because we’re

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taking them from their homes across to Argos’ -Talthybius is more concerned with getting in trouble for the women setting fire to themselves than their suffering (P17)

Question 5

‘To lie in a

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distant country, with no relatives to honour them and make sacrifices at their graves.’ -Cassandra referring to the diseased Greek soldiers (P20)

Question 6

‘They won the

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greatest of all glories. They died fighting for their fatherland!’ -Cassandra argues that war is only noble when defending one’s country (P20)

Question 7

‘it is a crown

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of honour to die nobly, with dignity’ -Cassandra argues that the cause for which the Trojans died was inherently more respectable than the Greek’s cause (P21)

Question 8

‘O you Greeks,

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you are so proud of yourselves as fighting men and thinkers! Are you proud of this too?’ -Hecuba referring to the Greek’s slaughter of Astyanax (P52)

Question 9

‘Were you so frightened

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of a child you had to invent this unheard of savagery?’ -Hecuba referring to the Greek’s slaughter of Astyanax (P52)

Question 10

‘When the city

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is taken, and every Trojan fighting man lies dead, you have become terrified of a little child.’ -Hecuba (P52)

Question 11

‘Old limbs

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strengthen yourselves. Your slavery is beginning.’ -Hecuba (P60)