ODYSSEY QUOTES SG
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The Qualities of a Hero (Odysseus) Refusing Calypso’s immortality offer
Book 5 "I offered to make him immortal and ageless"
The Qualities of a Hero Shipwreck reaction
Book 5 "Let this disaster come. It only makes one more."
The Qualities of a Hero Not trusting Ino
Book 5 "I shall do what I myself think best."
The Qualities of a Hero Tricking Cyclops
Book 9 My name is Nobody
The Qualities of a Hero Boasting Polyphemus mistake
Book 9 "your eye was put out by Odysseus”
The Qualities of a Hero Odysseus intelligent epithet
‘master of strategems’
Nostos Wishing for a heroic death at Troy
Book 5 "If only I could have died at Troy over Achilles’ corpse!"
Nostos The effect of the Lotus plant
Book 9 "They lost any wish to come back... to forget all thoughts of return."
Nostos Urging Odysseus to leave Circe’s island ODYSSEUS’ MEN
Book 10 "It’s time you thought of Ithaca."
Nostos Polyphemus prayer
Book 9 "Let him come late, in wretched plight, having lost all his comrades."
Xenia Nausicaa justifying stranger help
Book 6 "All strangers and beggars come under the protection of Zeus."
Xenia Cyclops reject divine law
Book 9 "We Cyclopes care nothing for Zeus."
Xenia Polyphemus curse on Odysseus
Book 9 "Let him come late, in wretched plight, having lost all his comrades."
Xenia Odysseus praises Penelope’s good xenia
Book 19 "Your fame has reached broad heaven itself, like that of some illustrious king."
The Supernatural and Fantasy Circe Warning
Book 12 "The Sirens... bewitch everybody... There is no homecoming for the man who draws near them."
The Supernatural and Fantasy Scylla
"She has twelve feet... and six long scrawny necks, each ending in a grisly head."
The Supernatural and Fantasy Circe Pigs
Book 10 "They had pigs’ heads and bristles, and they grunted like pigs."
Disguise and Recognition Athena hides Odysseus in Phaeacia
Book 7 "Athene... enveloped him in a thick mist."
Disguise and Recognition Eurycleia scar
Book 19 "At once she recognized the scar."
Disguise and Recognition Penelope’s Bed test
Book 23 "Move the great bed outside the bedroom."
Disguise and Recognition Identity to loyal servants
Book 21 "I will show you something as positive proof."
Justice and Revenge Odysseus vow against suitors
Book 19 "The suitors are all of them doomed."
Justice and Revenge First Kill in Battle
Book 22 "He levelled a deadly shaft straight at Antinous."
Justice and Revenge Punishing disloyal maids
Book 22 "The women’s heads were held fast in a row, with nooses round their necks."
Justice and Revenge Divine aid in Final Fight
Book 22 "Athene made the whole volley miss."
The Portrayal of Women Weaving trick
Book 19 "By day I wove the great web, but every night I undid the work."
The Portrayal of Women Caution on Odysseus return
Book 23 "Penelope sat there without a word."
The Portrayal of Women Nausicaa beauty
Book 6 "She looked like Artemis the archeress."
The Portrayal of Women Circe description
Book 10 "Circe, a formidable goddess."
Divine Intervention Poseidon sight of O obstacle
Book 5 "The sight of Odysseus sailing over the seas enraged him."
Women - looming
Telemachus 1 “loom and spindle”