Quiz Quote ID's (2nd Section)

Dr. Davis, Lit Trad III, Rome 2025 Fall

“Now hear you this, the right behind my sacrament: by my child’s Justice driven to fulfillment, by her Wrath and Fury, to whom I sacrificed this man, the hope that walks chambers is not traced with fear while yet Aegisthus makes the fire shine in my hearth.”

Speaker: Clytaemestra

Play: Agamemnon (from the Oresteia) 

‘But when he knew the terrible thing that he had done, he spat the dead meat from him with a cry, recoiled and kicked the table over, pledging with strength his curse: “thus crash in ruin all the seed of Pleisthenes”’

Speaker: Aegisthus

Play: Agamemnon (from the Oresteia)

“I see them holding the inward parts, the visuals, oh pitiful, that meat their father tasted of…I tell you: there is one that plots vengeance for this.”

Speaker: Cassandra

Play: Agamemnon

“Thyestes’ feast upon the flesh of his own children I sand in terror of the thought, and fear is on me hearing the truth and no tale fabricated.  The rest: I heard it, but wander still far from the course.”

Speaker: Chorus Leader

Play: Agamemnon

“I am a mortal, a man; I cannot trample upon these tinted splendors without fear thrown in my path. I tell you, as a man, not god, to reverence me.”

Speaker: Agamemnon

Play: Agamemnon

“For the child still in swaddling clothes cannot tell us if he is hungry or thirsty, if he needs to make water. Children’s young insides are a law to themselves.”

Speaker: Cilissa

Play: Eumenides

“…I am a prophet, I shall not lie. Never, for man, woman, nor city, from my throne of prophecy have I spoken a word except that which Zeus, father of Olympians, might command.”

Speaker: Apollo

Play: Eumenides

“I will bear your angers.  You are elder born than I and in that you are wiser than I.  yet still Zeus gave me too intelligence not to be despised.”

Speaker: Athena

Play: Eumenides

“Yours to bear witness now, Apollo, and expound the case for me, if I was right to cut her down. I will not deny I did this thing, because I did do it.”

Speaker: Orestes

Play: Eumenides

“Gods of the younger generation, you have ridden down the laws of the elder time, torn them out of my hands.  I, disinherited, suffering, heavy with anger shall let loose on the land…vindictive poison.”

Speaker: Chorus of Furies

Play: Eumenides

“I beg you—do not hunt this out—I beg you, if you have any care for your own life.  What I am suffering is enough.”

Speaker: Jocasta

Play: Oedipus

“What I have done here was best done—don’t tell me otherwise, do not gibe me further counsel. I do not know with what eyes I could look upon my father when I die and go under the earth, nor yet my wretched mother—those two to whom I have done things deserving worse punishment than hanging.”

Speaker: Oedipus

Play: Oedipus

He tore the brooches—the gold chased brooches fastening her robe—away from her and lifting them up high dashed them on his own eyeballs, shrieking out such things as: “You will never see the crime I have committed or done upon me! Dark eyes, now in days to come look on forbidden faces, do not recognize those whom you long for”— with such imprecations he struck his eyes again and yet again with the brooches.

Second Messenger

This is Aristotle’s definition of ______: A change from ignorance to knowledge, and so to either friendship or enmity, among people defined in relation to good fortune or misfortune

recognition

This is Aristotle’s definition of ______: A change of the actions to their opposite…in accordance with probability or necessity

reversal

“Whoever this god may be, sire, welcome him to Thebes.  For he is great in many ways, but above all it was he, or so they say, who gave to mortal men the gift of lovely wine by which our suffering is stopped.  And if there is no god of wine, there is no love, no Aphrodite either, nor other pleasure left to men.”

Speaker: Messenger

Play: Bacchae

“Your are attractive, stranger, at least to women—which explains, I think, your presence here in Thebes. Your curls are long; they fall along your cheeks. You do not wrestle, I take it. And what fair skin!”

Speaker: Pentheus

Play: Bacchae

"You and you alone will labor for your city. A great ordeal awaits you, the one that you’re allotted as your fate. I shall lead you safely there; someone else shall bring you back…”

Speaker: Dionysus

Play: Bacchae

“ My aim was to rouse every man to emulate great figures like them when the trumpet of war sounded out.  But I never created a whore like Phaidra…”

Speaker: Aischylos

Play: Frogs

“I made reasoning part of my art and enquiry too, which means they now ponder and thoroughly grasp all manner of things, especially how to improve the way they organize domestic affairs.”

Speaker: Euripides

Play: Frogs

“No, you unnatural hags! I will have such revenges on you both that all the world shall—I will do such things—what they are, yet I know not; but they shall be the terrors of the earth.”

Speaker: King Lear

Play: King Lear

“An admiral evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star. My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon’s Tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Fut! I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.”

Speaker: Edmund

Play: King Lear

“The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us: the dark and vicious place where thee he got cost him his eyes.”

Speaker: Edgar

Play: King Lear 

“Why have my sisters husbands if they say they love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, that lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, to love my father all.”

Speaker: Cordelia

Play: King Lear

Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the wall of a jakes with him.”

Speaker: Kent

Play: King Lear

“Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me: you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart to my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. ‘Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?”

Speaker: Hamlet

Play: Hamlet

“O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven; it hath the primal eldest curse upon’t, a brother’s murder.”

Speaker: Claudius

Play: Hamlet

“He is dead and gone, lady, he is dead and gone; at his head a grass-green turf, at his heels a stone.”

Speaker: Ophelia

Play: Hamlet

“To my sick soul (as sin’s true matter is) each toy seems prologue to some great amiss; so full of artless jealousy is guilt it spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”

Speaker: Gertrude

Play: Hamlet

“Call the noblest to the audience. For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune.  I have some rights of memory in this kingdom, which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.”

Speaker: Fortinbras

Play: Hamlet

To whom does Ophelia speak these lines: “‘Tis in my memory locked, and you yourself shall keep the key of it.”

Speaker: Laertes

Play: Hamlet

“Antonio, I am married to a wife which is as dear to me as life itself; but life itself, my wife, and all the world are not with me esteemed above thy love.  I would lose all, ay sacrifice them all here to this devil, to deliver you.”

Speaker: Bassanio

Play: Merchant of Venice

“These be the Christian husbands! I have a daughter; would any of the stock of Barabbas had been her husband, rather than a Christian!”

Speaker: Shylock

Play: Merchant of Venice

“If to do were as easy to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.”

Speaker: Portia

Play: Merchant of Venice

“I am as like to call thee so again, to spit on thee again, to spurn thee too.  If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not as to they friends—for when did friendship take a breed for barren metal of his friend?  —But lend it rather to thine enemy.”

Speaker: Antonio

Play: Merchant of Venice

“In christ’ning shalt thou have two godfathers.  Had I been judge, thou shouldst have had ten more—to bring thee to the gallows, not to the font.”

Speaker: Gratiano

Play: Merchant of Venice

“It is cause, it is cause, my soul.  Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars.  It is cause.  Yet I’ll not shed her blood nor scar the whiter skin of hers than snow, and smooth as monumental alabaster.”

Speaker: Othello

Play: Othello

“Nobody—I myself. Farewell. commend me to my kind lord. O, farewell!”

Speaker: Desdemona

Play: Othello

“Thou hast not half that pow’r to do me harm as I have to be hurt. O gull! O dolt! As ignorant as dirt! Thou hast done a deed—I care not for thy sword; I’ll make thee known, though I lost twenty lives. Help! Help! Ho! Help! The Moor hath killed my mistress! Murder! murder!”

Speaker: Emilia

Play: Othello

“I speak not yet of proof. Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio; wear your eyes thus: not jealous nor secure. I would not have your free and noble nature out of self-bounty be abused. Look to’t. I know our country disposition well: in Venice they do let heaven see the pranks they dare not show their husband.”

Speaker: Iago

Play: Othello

“Reputation, reputation, reputation!  O, I have lost my reputation!  I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.  My reputation, Iago, my reputation.”

Speaker: Cassio

Play: Othello

Cassio gives Biana this physical object and asks her to “copy” the “work” [the stitching]:__________

handkerchief