Classics AS Level - The Odyssey

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‘My mother certainly says I am Odysseus' son; but for myself I cannot tell’

Telemachus doubting his parentage (book 1)

‘But give us no more of your present song. It is too sad; it never fails to wring my heart’

Penelope crying at the bard (book 1)

‘I pray that Zeus will bring a day of reckoning, when in this house I will destroy you--and not make restitution’

Telemachus threatening the Suitors (book 1)

‘He worked fast and felled twenty in all and lopped their branches with his axe’

Odysseus' physical prowess (book 5)

‘Three and four times blessed are those countrymen of mine who fell long ago on the broad plains of Troy’

Odysseus wishes to have died at Troy (book 5)

‘It is of Artemis, the Daughter of almighty Zeus, that your beauty, grace, and stature most remind me’

Odysseus comparing Nausicaa to the virgin goddess (book 6)

‘Then he advanced on them like a mountain lion who sallies out, defying wind and rain in the pride of his power, with fire in his eyes, to hunt down the oxen or sheep or pursue the wild deer’

Odysseus predator simile (book 6)

‘She is also a wise woman, and when her sympathies are enlisted she settles even men's disputes’

Arete description (book 7)

‘Only a fool or a nonentity would challenge the friend who is entertaining him in a strange country’

Phaeacians and xenia (book 8)

‘He was ashamed to be seen weeping by the Phaeacians’

Odysseus crying at the bard (book 8)

‘Cyclops, if anyone ever asks you how you came by your blindness, tell him your eye was put out by Odysseus, sacker of cities’

Odysseus aggravating Polyphemus (book 9)

‘It's not fair! What a captain we have, valued wherever he goes and welcomed in every port! Back he comes from Troy with a splendid haul of plunder, though we who have gone every bit as far come home with empty hands ... Come on; let's find out how much gold and silver is hidden in that bag’

Odysseus' crew plot to open the bag of winds (book 10)

‘With the fear of death upon them they struck the water like one man’

Escaping the Laestrygonians (book 10)

‘She prepared a brew in a golden bowl for me to drink and with evil in her heart dropped in the drug’

Circe drugging Odysseus (book 10)

‘Three times, like a shadow or a dream, she slipped through my hands’

Anticleia's ghost (book 11)

‘For like an angler on a jutting point, who casts his bait to lure the little fishes below ... whips his struggling catch to land, Scylla had whisked my comrades, struggling, up to the rocks’

Scylla taking Odysseus' six best men (book 12)

‘Pallas Athene ... had thrown a mist over the place’

Athene disguising Ithaca (book 13)

‘Penelope found his conversation especially agreeable, because he was a man of principle’

Penelope likes Amphinomus (book 16)

‘she was extorting gifts from her suitors and bewitching them by her persuasive words, while all the time her heart was set on something quite different’

Odysseus delighted at Penelope saying she will marry one of the Suitors (book 18)

‘As a minstrel skilled at the lyre and in song easily stretches a string round a new leather strap, fixing the twisted sheep-gut at both ends, so he strung the great bow without effort or haste’

Odysseus strings the bow (book 21)

‘Each of them laboured under the delusion that he had killed the man by accident’

Suitors being dumb after Antinous just got shot (book 22)

‘Come, Eurycleia, move the great bed outside the bedroom that he himself built and make it up with fleeces and blankets and brightly coloured rugs’

Penelope being cunning with the bed trick (book 23)

‘Stop, girls. Where are you flying to at the sight of a man? Don't tell me you take him for an enemy. There is no man on earth, nor ever will be, who would dare to set hostile feet on Phaeacian soil’

Nausicaa comforts maids (book 6)

‘And yet you did not recognise Pallas Athene, Daughter of Zeus, who always stands by your side and guards you through all your adventures’

Odysseus fails to recognise Athene (book 13)

‘Oh no! Whose country have I come to this time? Are they some brutal tribe of uncivilized savages, or a kindly and god-fearing people?’

Odysseus lands in Ithaca (book 13)

‘Odysseus' right hand sought and gripped the old woman's throat’

Odysseus does not want Eurycleia to recognise him (book 19)

‘Telemachus flung his arms round his noble father's neck and burst into tears’

Telemachus recognises Odysseus (book 16)

‘the black hand of Death descended on him the moment he caught sight of Odysseus--after twenty years’

Argus dies (book 17)

‘no thought of bloodshed entered his head’

Antinous you silly goose (book 22)

‘let him come late, in wretched plight, having lost all his comrades, in a foreign ship, and let him find trouble in his home’

Polyphemus prays to Poseidon (book 9)

‘I considered drawing the long sword from my sturdy side and lopping his head off to roll in the dust’

Odysseus considers stabbing Eurylochus who doubted him (book 10)

‘ask your royal father in the morning to have a waggon made ready for you with a couple of mules’

Athena tells Nausicaa to do washing (book 6)

‘splendid dwelling ... bronze threshold ... golden doors hung on posts of silver’

Alcinous' palace (book 7)

‘It was this man's reckless folly that cost them their lives’

Eurylochus doubts Odysseus because Cyclops encounter (book 10)

‘For dead though he is, Persephone has granted him, and him

alone, continuing wisdom’

Teiresias according to Circe (book 10)

‘he toppled headlong from the roof. He broke his neck and his soul went to Hades’

Elpenor (book 10)

‘when a god wishes to remain unseen, what eye can observe his coming or going?’

About Circe slipping past (book 10)

‘Take this veil and wind it round your waist. With its divine protection you need not be afraid of injury or death’

Ino / Leucothoe giving Odysseus her veil (book 5)

‘When we first met I thought him repulsive, but now he looks like the gods who live in heaven. I wish I could have a man like him for my husband’

Nausicaa (book 6)

‘It was indeed a spot where even an immortal visitor must pause to gaze in wonder and delight’

Calypso's pretty island (book 5)

'And summon our divine bard, Demodocus; a god has given him the special gift of delighting our ears with his song'

Demodocus (book 8)

‘What a thigh the old fellow has! Irus is going to be un-Irused’

Irus (book 18)