English Midterm

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Speaker: Menelaus To: Telemachus

"And still, much as I weep for all my men, grieving sorely, time and again, sitting here in the royal halls, now indulging myself in tears, now brushing tears away"

Speaker: Athena To: Telemachus

"And you, my friend - how tall and handsome I see you now - be brave, you too, so men to come will sing your praises down the years"

Speaker: Nausicaa To: King Alcinous

"Daddy dear, I wonder, won't you have them harness a wagon for me... so I can take our clothes to the river for a washing?" (6.60-64)

Speaker: Calypso To: Odysseus

"Farewell! But if you knew, down deep, what pains are fated to fill your cup before you reach that shore, you'd stay right here, preside me in our house with me and immortal."

Speaker: Zeus To: the assembly of all the gods

"From us alone, they say, come all their miseries, yes, but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond a proper share" (1.38-41)

Speaker: Nestor To: Telemachus

"Gladly, my boy, I'll tell you the story first to last...Right you are, you guess what would have happened if red-haired Menelaus, arriving back from Troy, had found Aegisthus alive in Agamemnon's palace."

Speaker: Calypso To: Hermes and all gods

"Hard-hearted you are, you gods! You unrivaled lords of jealousy - scandalized when goddesses sleep with mortals" (5.129-132)

speaker: menelaus to: telemachus about: athena

"He'll try to escape - twist and turn into every beast that moves across the earth, transforming himself into water, superhuman fire, but you hold on for dear life, hug him all harder" (4.468-471)

Speaker: Telemachus To: suitors

"I will never issue that ultimatum to my mother. And you, if you have any shame in your own hearts, you must leave the palace" (2.154-156)

Speaker: Telemachus To: Euryclea (Nurse)

"I'm sailing off to Sparta now and sandy Pylos too, for news of my dear fathers journey home" (2.396-397)

Speaker: Homer About: Helen

"Into a mixing bowl from which they drank their wine she slipped a drug, heart's ease, dissolving anger, magic to make us all forget our pains" (4.244-245)

Speaker: Antinous To: Telemachus

"It is not the suitors here who deserve the blame, it is your own dear mother, the matching queen of cunning."

Speaker: Hermes To: Calypso

"It was Zeus who made me come, no choice of mine...But there is no way, you know, for another god to thwart the will of storming Zeus and make it come to nothing. Zeus claims you keep beside you a most unlucky man..."

Speaker: Nestor To: Telemachus

"Odysseus sailed them back, the flexible, wily king, veering over to Agamemnon now to shore his fortunes up" (3.181-182)

Speaker: Nausicaa To: Odysseus

"Phaeacians we are, who hold this city and this land, and I am the daughter of King Alcinous."

Speaker: Helen To: Telemachus About: Odyssesus

"Scarring his own body with mortifying strokes, throwing filthy rags on his back like any slave, he slipped into the enemy's city" (4.275-279)

Speaker: Odysseus To: Calypso

"She falls short of you, your beauty, your stature. She is mortal after all, and you, you never age" (5.239-241)

Speaker: Homer About: Odysseus

"Sing to me man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy"

Speaker: Telemachus To: Penelope

"So, mother, go back to your quarters. Tend to your own tasks, the distaff and the loom, and keep the women working hard as well. As for giving orders, men will see to that, but most of all: I hold the reins of power in this house."

Speaker: Athena To: Telemachus

"Some of the words you'll find within yourself, the rest some power will inspire you to say. You least of all - I know - were born and reared with the gods good will" (3.28-32)

Speaker: Athena To: Telemachus

"You must not cling to your boyhood... It is time you were a man. Haven't you heard what glory Prince Orestes won throughout the world?" (1.341-343)

Penelope

Icarius daughter

Telemachus

cool-headed

Hermes

giant-killer

Poseidon

god of the sea blue mane who shakes the earth

Calypso

nymph with lovely braids

Dawn

rose-red fingered

Athena

sparkling-eyed

Odysseus

the man of twists and turns

Menelaus

the red-haired king

Nausicaa

white-armed princess


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