Iliad Quote ID
"I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through; / I put my lips to the hands of the man who has killed my children."
Who is Priam?
"Stubborn man! Anyone trusts even a lesser companion
than I, who is mortal, and does not have so many ideas.
But I am a god, and through it all I keep watch over you
In every endeavor of yours."
Who is Athene?
It will not be permitted me--so be it-- To keep the man from rule in Italy; By changeless fate Lavinia waits, his bride. And yet to drag it out, to pile delay Upon delay in these great matters--that I can do: to destroy both countries' people, That I can do.
Who is Juno?
Penelope's nurse
Eurkleia
The woman that tempts Sir Gaiwan
Lady Bertilak
"Why, son of Peleus, / do you keep after me in the speed of your feet, being immortal, / while I am an immortal god? Even yet you have not / seen that I am a god, but strain after me in your fury. / Now hard fighting with the Trojans whom you stampeded means nothing / to you. They are crowded in the city, but you bent away here. / You will never kill me. I am not one who is fated."
Who is Apollo?
"Human beings live for only a short time,
and when a man is harsh himself, and his mind knows harsh thoughts,
all men pray that sufferings will befall him hereafter
while he lives; and when he is dead all men make fun of him.
But when a man is blameless himself, and his thoughts are blameless,
the friends he has entertained carry his fame widely
to all mankind, and many are they who call him excellent."
Who is Penelope?
So lift your eyes and search, and once you find it Pull away the bough. It will come willingly, Easily, if you are called by fate. If not, with all your strength you cannot conquer it, Cannot lop it off with a sword's edge.
Who is the Sibyl?
This is another name for Paris.
Who is Alexandros?
This is Nausikaa's father.
Who is Alkinoos?
"But if the son of Atreus is too much hated in your heart, / himself and his gifts, at least take pity on all the other / Achaians, who are afflicted along the host and will honour you / as a god."
Who is Odysseus?
Of all creatures that breathe and walk on the earth, there is nothing
more helpless than a man is, of all that the earth fosters.
Who is Odysseus?
"Make this your offering to my dust. No love,
No pact, must be between our peoples; No,
But rise up from my bones, avenging spirit!
Harry with fire and sword the Dardan countrymen!"
Who is Dido?
The person responsible for the plot to tempt of Sir Gaiwan.
Morgan le Fay
These three men go to convince Achilleus to forgive Agamemnon.
Odysseus, Nestor, Phoenix
Impossible man! Won't you listen to reason? Just because some god exalts you in battle you think you can beat the rest at tactics too. How can you hope to garner all the gifts at once?
Who is Polydamas?
"There have been many hard-traveling strangers who have come here, / but I say I have never seen one as like as you are / to Odysseus, since I think he too is wearing / such rags upon him as this, and wandering among people / if he is alive at all anywhere, and looks on the sunlight."
Who is Philoitios?
Did such pleasure In being alive enthrall me, son, that I Allowed you whom I sired to take my place Before the enemy sword? Am I, your father, Saved by your wounds, by your death do I live?
Who is Mezentius?
Dido's sister.
Who is Anna?
The Trojan spy (to whom Hektor promises the horses of Achilleus if he succeeds in his mission) Diomedes and Odysseus kill in the night raid in book 10 of The Iliad.
Who is Dolon?
Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.
Who is Glaukos?
"Stranger and friend, I myself first have a question to ask you. / What man are you, and whence? And who was it gave you this clothing? / Did you not say that you came here ranging over the water?"
Who is Arete?
Another thing: when you have crossed and moored Your ships ashore, there to put up your altars For offerings, veil your head in a red robe Against intrusions on your holy fires, Omen-unsettling sights amid your prayers. You and your company retain this ritual Veiling in the future, let your progeny Hold to religious purity thereby.
Who is Helenus?
Fugitive prophet picket up by Telemachos.
Who is Theoklymenos?
Name Gaiwan's horse, Odysseus' dog, and Achilleus' magic horses
Gringelot, Argos, Xanthos and Balius.