World of the Hero - A & O

"Telemachus, the...

...godlike youth" B1pg6

"They helped themselves to the...

...good things spread before them" B1pg7

"For the best of husbands,

the man whose name rings through the land from Hellos to the heart of Argos" B1pg12

"Making decisions must be the men's concern,

and mine in particular; for I am master in this house" B1pg12

"You are hard hearted, you gods,

and unmatched for your jealousy" B4pg66

"looking out with streaming eyes

across the watery wilderness" B4pg67

" my wise Penelope's looks..

and stature are insignificant compared with yours,,

i long to

reach my home

"The mighty Alcinous had a young daughter called Nausicaa,

tall and beautiful as a goddess" B6pg76

"And may the gods grant you your heart's desire;

may they give you a husband

"it is Olympian Zeus himself who assigns good...

...fortune to men, good and bad alike" B6pg81

" Athene of the lovely hair prevented it, shedding a

magic mist round her favourite in her concern for his safety" B7pg86

"but the gods can grace his words with charm: people watch him with delight as

he speaks unfalteringly with winning modesty" B8pg98

"Hephaestus may be lame,

but he has won the day by his cunning" B8pg102

"The Cyclopes have no assemblies for the making of laws,

nor any established legal codes" B9pg113

"We Cyclopes care nothing for Zeus

care nothing for Zeus

"I was about to shout something else to the Cyclops, but from all parts of the ship my men called out,

trying to restrain and pacify me" B9pg123

"tell him your eye was put out by Odysseus, sacker of cities,

the son of Laertes, who lives in Ithaca" B9pg123

"I debated within myself whether to jump overboard and drown or...

...stay among the living and quietly endure. I stayed and endured" B10pg126

"The world holds no one more

..damnable than you

"who promptly made his murderous intentions clear,

pouncing on one of my men to eat him for supper" B10pg128

"Prowling about the place were mountain wolves and lions that...

...Circe had bewitched with her magic drugs" B10pg130

"Look: here is a drug of real virtue that you must...

...take into Circe's palace; it will make you immune from evil" B10pg132

"they became men again and looked...

...younger and much more handsome and taller than before" B10pg135

"it was my heartache for you...

...that brought my life with all its sweetness to an end" B11pg145

"Three times, in my eagerness to clasp her to me, I started forward. Three times, like a shadow or a dream,

she slipped through my hands and left me pierced by an even sharper pain" B11pg145

"Never be too trustful even of your wife,

nor show her all that is in your mind" B11pg151

"for strangers and beggars all...

...come in Zeus' name" B14pg182

"Their reckless violence goes beyond all bounds, and if they insulted him,

as I fear is likely, that would distress me deeply" B16

"Telemachus flung his arms round his...

...noble father's neck and burst into tears" B16

"so you havent the...

...brains to match your looks" B17pg234

her eyes were filled with tears;

her voice stuck in her throat" B19g261

"Three times he made it quiver in his efforts to bend it;

three times his strength failed" B21

"Again the men under Odysseus' shrewd and capable

command hurled their spears into the thick of the enemy" B22

doing right is a much better policy

than doing wrong" B22

"Once more the Suitors threw their sharp spears with all their might,

but Athene made the whole volley miss" B22

"so the women's heads were held fast in a row,

with nooses round their necks, to bring them to the most pitiable end" B22

"This was her way of putting her husband to the test.

But Odysseus flared up at once and rounded on his loyal wife" B23

A: "These were his words, but he was sick with all his cares.

He showed them the face of hope and kept his misery deep in his heart" B1pg9

A: "Is this our reward for piety and obedience?

Is this how you bring us to our kingdom?" B1pg10

A; she now commands her sacraments and her household gods.

Take them to share your fate. Look for a great city to establish for them

A: "And suddenly it seemed

a noble thing to die in arms" B2

A: What courage in his heart!

What a warrior!' B4pg69

A: "The woman led the...

...whole undertaking" B1pg13

A: "I am Aeneas,

known for my devotion" B1pg13

A: "Duty allowed no rest to

the limbs of Aeneas"

A: "O Camilla, glory of Italy,

I cannot hope to express my gratitude in words or deeds." B11

A: "'Have you entirely forgotten

your own kingdom and your own destiny?" B4pg77

A: "There prosperity is waiting for you,

and a kingdom and a royal bride" B2pg47

A:"She was giving

laws and rules to conduct her people" B1pg17

A: "Dido gave no thought to appearance or

her good name and no longer kept her love as a secret" B4pg74

A: "Come now father, up onto my back,

your weight means nothing to me" B2

A: "'your duty is to guard the statues of the gods and their temples.

Leave peace and war to men.'" B7p153

A: "I know a fleet has sailed into the waters of the Thybris.

...Royal Juno has not entirely forgotten us" B7p153

A: "I, the queen of the Gods...

have waged war all these years against a whole race of men!" B1pg4

A: "The lust for battle raged within him,

the criminal madness of war." B7pg154

A: "Two gates known as the gates of war,

sanctified by religion and the fear of savagery." B7

A: "By their blood they shall

raise our name to the stars" B7pg148

A: "Caesar was riding into Rome in triple triumph, paying undying vows to the

gods of Italy and consecrating three hundred shrines throughout the city" B8pg185

A: "Frightened mothers heaped prayer upon prayer,

their fear increasing with the approach of danger" B8p18

A: "Near this he had put Rome and the violent rape of

the Sabines at the great games" B8pg183

A: "Aeneas lifted onto his shoulders the

fame and fate of his descendants" B8

A: "Ascanius first shot in war the swift arrow...

and his was the hand that laid the brave Numanus low" B9pg204

A: "Turnus in a fury prowled round the walls...

like a wolf in the bed of night" B9p188

A: "Young Pallas stayed close to his left side,

asking him now about the stars and the course they were steering" B10pg215

A: "Juturna had advised her dear brother Turnus to

take the place of Lausus." B10pg224

A: "There was a clash of men that day

in bitter fighting" B10

A: "Pitiless Mars was now dealing

death and grief to both sides with impartial hand...

A: "Cutting all the branches off a huge oak, he set it up on a mound as a trophy to the great god mighty in war,

and clothed it in the shining armour he had stripped from the body of the enemy leader Mezentius" B11pg238

A: "Aeneas advancing

relentlessly under arms" B11pg263

A: "fill your minds and your hopes

with the thought of war

A: "I do not wage war with your people.....

It is not these men who should have risked their lives but Turnus." B10pg241

A: 'O Trojan great in fame,

and greater still in arms' B11pg241

A: "Turnus groaned, and blazed up into

a violent rage" B11pg248

A: "He too was sharpening his spirit and

rousing himself to anger" B12pg267

A: I, Turnus, second in courage to none..

of those who have gone before me, have offered up my life" B11pg250

A: "the limbs of Turnus were dissolved in cold and

his life left him with a groan" B12pg290

A: "came Father Aeneas, the founder of the Roman Race,

with his divine armour blazing and his shield like a star" B12pg268

A; What they were competing for was

the lifeblood of Turnus." B12p285

""The excellences of the male are

inappropriate in the Homeric female" John Ferguson

"[mythologies] seem to show a deep distrust of women as

violent and unpredictable beings" Anne Haward

A: "The story of Dido and Aeneas is

a tragedy of incomprehension" Richard Jenkyns

A: "Jupiter and his sister Juno contribute more or less equally to the anger and terror with which the poem ends.

more or less equally to the anger and terror with which the poem ends. Robin Sowerby

The gods therefore represent conflicting

forces through which the fates find their way" Robin Sowerby

A: "The efforts Venus makes to protect her son elsewhere in the poem serve to emphasise the fact that

Aeneas survives not by his own will " Robin Sowerby

"Odysseus is greater than Achilles because he

succeeds even when the gods are out to get him" The English Journal 1922

"Odysseus, comes from a close and affectionate human family,

and his attitude towards Penelope and Telemachus is that if a good father and husband" Jasper Griffin

A: "The loneliness and burden of responsibility stay

with Aeneas throughout the poem" Stephen Harrison

A: "He had to be an ideal Roman with qualities of leadership,

a sort of model for Augustus and his successors" RD Williams

"Does the poem offer a high, even romantic view of marriage? Or does Odysseus essentially want to

recover what belongs to him- a package which includes his rank, his possessions, and his wife" Richard Jenkyns

"This is, generally, a very moral poem, with the god's

acting as operators to guaranty Morality" Howard Clark

A: "Pious Aeneas chooses obedience to the will and

law of the gods" Michael Bryson

A: "Roman power is morally justified in

the peace it brings" Robin Sowerby

"[Homer] reminds us over and over again that the

primary relationship of his poem is that of a broken family" Howard Clark

"Odysseus...is keenly concerned with possessions. He comes home in the end with

'more treasures,..., than was his share Jasper Griffin

"Divine interventions and signs interact with prophecies and dreams;

they help to give shape to the narrative and propel it forward" Robin Sowerby

"[Athene] stands by her favourite and

guides his steps almost continually" Peter Jones

A: "the Aeneid is pre-eminently a national epic intimately connected with Roman history...

Aeneas is to found a city which is to be the parent city of Rome" Robin Sowerby

A: "The person gives way to

the national" Simon Swain

"Odysseus is not just less heroic [than Achilles]

he also has human attachments of a sort which Achilles does not" Jasper Griffin