Odyssey Quotes Books 12-24 Flashcards
(14 cards)
Homophrosyne quote?
‘We both know how to get our own way’ -Book 13, Athene to Odysseus after he lied to her.
3 quotes about Time?
‘fame and fortune’ -repeated all throughout the Odyssey regarding Time and Kleos
‘the gods’ showed their utter hatred of him by allowing him to neither fall in battle against the Trojans or die in his friend’s arms’ -Book 14, Euemeus on how unlucky Odysseus is to not have died at War like a hero
‘So even death, Achilles, did not destroy your name, and your great glory will last for ever among all mankind.’ -book 24, Agammemnom and achilles chatting in the underworld while the suitor’s souls are all sucked into the Underworld by Hermes.
1 quote about Kleos?
‘Yet it is far better to die than to live without ever winning the prize that lures us al here every day and keeps us always hoping.’ -book 21, Odysseus to the suitors during the bow challenge.
3 quotes about Xenia?
‘They do not enjoy free meals at her expense.’ -book 18, Penelope finally telling off the suitors for breaching Xenia.
‘with eager hospitality piled baskets high with bread and mixed them some sweet wine in an olive-wood bowl.’ -Book 16, Eumeus hosting Odysseus.
‘loaded with presents, was given a happy send-off’ -book19, Odysseus telling the story of how he got his scar from the boar.
3 Quotes about hubris?
‘arrogant suitors’
‘You have exploited this house in the long absence of it’s master’ -book 21, Penelope telling them off again and giving the the bow challenge.
‘But it was their villainy that had started it all.’
2 quotes about the Gods?
‘I suppose my inclinations were all implanted in me by the gods’
‘It is not for that reason that I shall respect you and entertain you, but because I fear Zeus, the patron of strangers’ -book 14, Eumeus saying he’s only taking in beggar odysseus cause he’s scared of Zeus.
Morality quote by Griffith?
‘but the Odyssey is full of the contrast of moral black and white.’
i.e. Penelope and Clytemnestra or Telemachus and Peisistratus.
Andreia quote?
‘In all the world, there has been none like ours for courage and manliness.’ book 24, Odysseus to Telemachus.
Knox on Xenia?
‘universally recognised morality.’
Kearns on the Gods?
‘Zeus, Athena and Poseidon alone are the main actors,’ -basically the contemporary audience would have seen him as a side note to the Gods actions.
Griffin on Justice and the Gods?
‘they do respond to the inextinguishable cry of the human heart for justice.’
Griffin on women?
‘to men, women are inscrutable… in the Odyssey that characteristic is dwelt upon with pleasure.’’
2 best similes throughout the odyssey?
‘He advanced on them like a mountain lion’ -book 6 Odysseus going to nausicaa.
‘He wept as a woman weeps when she throws her arms around the body of her beloved husband, fallen in battle in the defence of his city and his comrades, fighting to save his city and his children from the evil day.’
‘’Like a fond father welcoming his son back after nine years’ book16 when Eumeus welcomes back Telemachus.
‘Like a lion when he comes feeding from some farmers bullock… a fearsome spectacle.’ Book 22, What Odysseus looks like after killing all the suitors.
2 Quotes that create sympathy for the suitors?
‘Unlike the rest he abhorred the Suitors’ recklessness, and their conduct filled him with indignation.’ Leodes
‘Let nobody maltreat this stranger’ Amphinomous book 18 defending Xenia.
