Quotation:
• For each quote you must write a paragraph about :
1. Identify work and author
2. Discuss how the quote reflects a theme of the work
3. Discuss how the quote reflects the ancient world.
Practice quote 1
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon Achaens. Many brave soul did it send hurrying down Hades, and many did it a hero yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.
Practice quote 2
• The quest that brings you hither and your needs.
• Ye sicken all, well wot I, yet my pain.
• How great soever yours, outtops it all.
• Your sorrow touches each man severally.
• Him and none other, but I grieve at once
• Both for the general and myself and you.
Practice quote 3
• Dost know the lineage? Nay, thou know'st it not
• And all unwitting art a double foe
• To thine own kin, the living and the dead;
• Aye and the dogging curse of mother and sire
• One day shall drive thee, like a two-edged sword
• Beyond our borders, and the eyes that now
• See clear shall henceforward endless night
Practice quote 4
And Athena said, "I come from heaven, if you will hear me, to bid you stay your anger. Hera has sent me, who cares for both of you alike. Cease, then this brawling, and do not draw your sword; rail at him if you will, and your railing will not be vain, for I tell you- and it shall surely be- that you shall hereafter receive gifts three times as splendid by reason of this present insult. Hold, therefore, and obey."
Practice quote 5
• He cannot make the death of Laius.
• In any wise jump with the oracle.
• For Loxias said expressly he was doomed.
• To die by my child's hand, but he, poor babe,
• He shed no blood, but perished first himself.
• So much for divination. Henceforth I
• Will look for signs neither to right nor left.