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Flashcards by Claude Gowan, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Claude Gowan
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| Heroism Helenus to Hektor and Aineias Bk 6 | It is on you two more than any of the Trojans and Lycians that the burden of battle falls, since in every venture you are the best at both fighting and planning |
| Heroism Hektor to Andromache Bk 6 | I have learnt always to be brave and to fight in the forefront of the Trojans |
| Heroism Andromache to Hektor Bk 6 | Your own brave spirit will destroy you |
| Heroism Homer on Hektor's death Bk 22 | His spirit flitted from his body and went on the way to Hades |
| Honour and Reputation Helenus to Hektor on Athene and Achilleus Bk 6 | So that she may hold back the son of Tydeus away from sacred Ilios... I think him the greatest of the Achaians |
| Honour and Reputation Hektor to Hecuba on wine Bk 6 | Do not offer me cheering wine, dear mother, or you may sap the strength from my limbs |
| Honour and Reputation Hektor on his failures Bk 22 | Now that I have destroyed my people through my own arrant folly |
| Honour and Reputation Hektor to Achilleus on treatment of his body Bk 22 | Do not let the dogs of the Achaian camp eat me by the ships |
| Honour and Reputation Hektor's body after death Bk 22 | So hektor's head was all sullied in the dust |
| Family Glaucus on the generations of man Bk 6 | The generation of men is just like that of leaves |
| Family Andromache being left by Hektor Bk 6 | You have no pity for your baby son and me, your doomed wife |
| Family Hektor on his son's future Bk 6 | Let people say, as he returns from the fighting: "this man is better by far than his father" |
| Women Women rush to Hektor for news Bk 6 | The wives and daughters of the Trojans came running to surround him, asking after their sons and brothers and kinsmen and husbands |
| Women Women praying to Athene Bk 6 | We may sacrifice here and now twelve heifers in your temple, yearlings never touched by the goad, if you will take pity |
| Women Helen of herself Bk 6 | The scheming creature that I am |
| Women Hecuba to Priam on his plan to get Hektor back Bk 24 | His wife shrieked loud and answered, "oh where have you wits gone now...?" |
| The role of the gods Diomedes cautious of Glaucos Bk 6 | If you are one of the immortals come down from the heavens I would not want to fight |
| The role of the gods Thetis to Achilleus on his wishes Bk 18 | Look, all that you asked has been brought about by Zeus |
| The role of the gods Zeus on Hektor's coming death Bk 22 | My heart is saddened for Hektor |
| The role of the gods Treatment of Hektor's body Bk 24 | Zeus had now given hime to his enemies to defile him in his own native land |
| The role of the gods Gods feelings for Hektor Bk 22 | But the blessed gods looked on and pitied Hektor |
| The role of the gods Achilleus on Zeus' treatment of man Bk 24 | There are two jars standing on Zeus' floor which hold the gifts he gives us: one holds evil, the other blessings. |
| The power of Fate Hektor on Troy's fate Bk 6 | The day will come when sacred Ilios is destroyed |
| The power of Fate Zeus weighs the scales Bk 22 | The father opened out his golden scales |
| The power of Fate Priam on his fate Bk 24 | My fate is utter misery - I fathered sons... not one of them is left |
| The power of Fate Achilleus on the fate of man Bk 24 | This is the fate the gods have spun for poor mortal men, that we should live in misery |
| The portrayal of war Agamemnon on the Trojans Bk 6 | Not one of them must escape stark destruction at our hands |
| The portrayal of war Helen to Hektor on misery Bk 6 | On us two Zeus has set a doom of misery |
| The portrayal of war Achilleus on his wishes of Hektor Bk 22 | I wish I could eat you myself |
| The portrayal of war Achilleus's hands Bk 24 | Kissed his hands, those terrible, murderous hands |
| Moral values Hektor confronting Paris Bk 6 | Strange man! the resentment you have conceived in your heart does you no honour |
| Moral values Apollo of Achilleus Bk 24 | He has no decency in his heart... his thoughts are savage like a lion's |
| Moral values Achilleus threatens Priam Bk 24 | Do not stir my heart any further in its grief |
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