HECTOR: Flashcards
(48 cards)
“My hands are unwashed
and I am ashamed to pour out gleaming wine to Zeus like this”
He found Paris in he bedroom,
fussing over his exquisite armour”
“Our people are dying, fighting right by the city and it’s steep wall-
and it is because of you that the clamour of battle is blazing round this city”
“My heart is eager
now to bring help to the Trojans”
“Their innocent child, no more than a baby,
Hector’s only beloved son, shining lovely as a star”
“Hector looked
at his son and smiled in silence”
“Please, feel pity for us,
stay here on the battlements, so you do not make an orphan of your child and your wife a widow”
"”have the army
take up position by the fig tree”
“I would feel terrible shame before the men of Troy and
the women of Troy with their trailing dresses, if like a coward I sculk away from the fighting”
“May I be dead and the heaped earth cover me before
I hear your screams and the sound of you being dragged away”
“Glorious Hector
took the helmet straight from his head and laid it gleaming bright on the ground”
“He kissed his dear son
and dangled him in his arms”
“they mourned Hector
while he still lived”
You are a brave fighter. But you deliberately
hang back and refuse to fight”
“I hear shaming things said of you by the Trojans
who have much hardships to endure on your account”
“Poulydamas was far better with words,
as Hector was better with the spear”
“I shall not run from him in the grim clash of war,
but stand to face him direct”
“Hector, please
dear child, do not face this an alone”
“Opened the fold of her dress and
held out a breast in her hand”
“If he kills you
I shall not then be able to lay you on the bier and mourn for you”
“as a mountain snake
in his hole waits for the approach of a man”
“If I go back inside the gates of the wall,
Poulydamas will be the first to lay blame on me”
“Promise to return Helen
and all her property with her to the sons of Atreus”
“As when champion strong-footed horses…
when a great prize is there to be won, a tripod or a woman”
